 So before I tear this down I wanted to do a follow-up video on the HA failover physical layer video I did yesterday, so I still have this set up It's another new day and there was a lot of comments on the video and you know I'm happy that the video is popular but a lot of people some people misunderstood this to think this was a deployment I so I wanted to make a follow-up video and talk about some of the Hardware that was used in an actual deployment that we did and it certainly wasn't this we to my now Well, we've never installed any I can't say there's not some of the some cheap switches floating around data centers I've seen some stuff But I will say that this is not what we would recommend to deploy because some people like oh Yeah, because the power supply on this little neck here could fail and that could be a fail point You're not wrong at all This was more for demonstration purposes now the actual install that we did that I cannot show you photos of because if well most of the data centers Just don't let you wander around with cameras And they don't really care for you doing that if you've ever been in a data center or a colo Where this is because it's not owned by the person putting it in it's a colo system Which means other people are there and they don't want you wandering around taking pictures of everything So what was the actual deployment we use to XG? 7100 now the 7100s are really nice solid performers They can do up to 10 gig and you can buy those and they bought the whole kit as the HA kit all configured So we have some great two PF senses solid one you rack mounts also We got two edge switches one you rack mount each and with the edge switches because yes any one switch is a single point of failure You're not just a power supply in a switch because someone mentioned dual power supply switches Yeah, you can get those as well We went with the dual switch method and by doing the dual switch method each server has multiple network interfaces on it So we've configured each server To have a network interface that copies to Connects to one switch and then the other network interface connects to the other switch and the switches are set up to talk to each other So if either switch fails, they have that redundancy there and this goes on through all the servers All have redundant connections. The only things that don't have is just the PDUs. They were using there's a couple things like the hardware distribution units That are only quit connected to switch zero versus connected to switch zero and switch one But this creates redundant links and basically you can unplug any switch and it system keeps working You can unplug either one of the PF sense XG7100 and the system keeps working They even have the feeds dual feeds coming in to the system and the way that works is we actually took the edge switch And we parsed out a couple of the other network ports on it to be dedicated to the WAN side And then the other sides are all dedicated to the LAN side And you do create segments of the switch and lock it down So this is the WAN side over here and these certain ports and an arrest are used for this and yes I'm aware of setting it to edge port so it gets a connection faster, which ones are set to edge Etc etc. So this is not a real world deployment for those that seem to do it So I figured I make this video so I can just reply with a video To make that pretty easy, but it is cool that you can use any small network Netgate device even these if I had two of these I would end the video with a couple of These basic ones even to get this done you can do fail over with You know less than $200 ones because it's a feature of PF sense Not a feature that is limited to or only allowed to work on certain models But I figured let's do this quick follow-up video to talk about that before I broke it all down This is not the ideal situation. You would have redundant switches You would have you know, obviously the redundant parts here But everything is much redundancy as you can because ideally if something fails in a data center You shouldn't lose connectivity to it. They're the only thing that even for this client I mean they have rate arrays. They have storage arrays But when it does come down to they still only have a couple servers in there So they're still building out redundancy that still needs to be done it's part of the future upgrade path we're doing as this client expands their business and The high availability is a hugely important aspect to them. That's why we went with you know all the equipment that we did But like so this is a follow-up to that. I Don't really have anything more to say But if there's enough comments on this and maybe there's some other video that spins off of this Let me know I do listen and read to read all the comments And we'll come up with ideas or if you want to participate in the forums and have a discussion about this Absolutely, this is a great topic. You know hardware redundancy HA failure, especially when you're dealing with out of remote sites They're critical to having your infrastructure and making sure it all stays up and running. 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