{"id":323,"date":"2018-01-01T21:56:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T02:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mzimmerer.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2018-01-01T21:56:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T02:56:44","slug":"new-year-new-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mzimmerer.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"New Year New Rack"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m been very quiet lately but I’ve been pretty deep in networking. I decided that I needed to back-peddle a little and try for my CCNA. I feel like anything on that topic has been more than covered elsewhere and my work has been pretty well structured around the objectives, nothing creative or different. Also if I decide to continue this blog, I’m going to have to find another platform. Things have kind of come to a head and much of what I installed in my environment a couple years ago is now depreciated. I need a serious security over-haul. Luckily if a breach were to occur on my DMZ, all should be contained by L3 rules.<\/p>\n

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The good stuff.<\/h3>\n

These posts are the easiest. I just get to show off the goods! I’ve been looking for a while now trying to find a larger rack but I’m limited on height. A 42 would just be too big because of some ductwork. I could move my Network\/Server area, but the only location I could move it to would be next to the water main. I’m already iffy about it being in the same room. I also have acquired some Cisco gear for my CCNA studies that’s not so conveniently places in the office.\u00a0\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

So the goal is to<\/h3>\n

consolidate all of this into one rack and get rid of the noisy equipment in the office. I finally found a 34U rack that would work for $95 and jumped on it.<\/p>\n

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I have two ML110 G7s that need some place to sit so the first thing I did was cut some plywood to fit in the base and painted it black. I also left plenty of a service loop when I ran data in my house so I’m able to have ample mobility with the rack in place.\"\" \"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

The height it pretty spot on. Just enough room for a little storage.<\/p>\n

I went ahead and racked it so production was on the front, and lab on the back. This works for now when I’m mainly back to networking gear.\"\" \"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

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The lights on the back PDU actually are spot on here. It gets dark behind the rack even with the door open<\/p>\n

I wish i had a better keyboard monitor solution, but this works.\"\"<\/p>\n

that’s it! happy new year!<\/p>\n

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I’m been very quiet lately but I’ve been pretty deep in networking. I decided that I needed to back-peddle a little and try for my CCNA. I feel like anything on that topic has been more than covered elsewhere and my work has been pretty well structured around the objectives,…<\/p>\n

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