mohctp

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by mohctp 10y ago
Cutting-edge and availability aren't really always best friends. For example cutting edge routing and switching (the latest products, fabric, SDN's, MC-LAG, etc) are notorious for failures and outages. Average is not the appropri
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by mohctp 10y ago
Agreed. Application Architecture is far more important than Cloud vs. Bare Metal. It is just easier and more cost effective to through more bare metal hardware at the problem than it is cloud instances. For some this does make bare metal
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by mohctp 10y ago
Some DCs provide PDU's and some don't.
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by mohctp 10y ago
The RMA process is pretty much a moot point at this scale. It simply doesn't make sense to buy servers with large warranties. Save the money, stock spares, and when a component dies replace it. In the long run it will come out to co
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by mohctp 10y ago
We are talking about 1 to 2 cab density here so capex doesn't carry that much weight. Having a little headroom on your power circuits is also incredibility important, and not every facility will sell 100% rated breakers. It may make m
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by mohctp 10y ago
agreed. There is absolutely zero reason to even consider 24 port switches in this environment.
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by mohctp 10y ago
>> N1 Which router should we purchase? >Pick your favorite. For what you're looking for here, everything is largely using the same silicon (broadcom chipsets). For switches, yes. Many of the switches share the same merchant s
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by mohctp 10y ago
Agreed, skip SDN. Skip MC-LAG. Juniper, Cisco, and Arista all have solutions for this environment.
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by mohctp 10y ago
This really is only a concern when you are paying a monthly recurring charge (MRC) by the breaker amp with many power drops. For a deployment of this scale it should be metered power (For example 1 (or more) 3phase a+b drops to each cabinet
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by mohctp 10y ago
There are two major pitfalls to crowd-sourced consulting such as this. 1) Contributors have not been vetted - Some responses are based on real world experience, and some is conjecture from arm-chair quarterbacks. (A simple example would be