Redundancy and performance is extra important on storage, so today we were at the DC brainstorming this. We ended up on decision to build a big cluster of small machines, and keep on upgrading those on a as needed basis. This will give much better redundancy as things are relying on many more individual machines and scale out is easier on our ... 閱讀全文 »
Our first transit link should be up and operational tomorrow. Our IP Block got assigned already. Netboot/iSCSI boot is still undone, but first storage brick is now stable and final configuration. i3s require 19VDC power input, a oversight in design, it was assumed they have wide input as well, so these will be delayed until late next week to get ... 閱讀全文 »
When you are doing a build out like ours - so many new things, and taking certain things to extremes there is bound to be unexpected things happening. After several days of issues with a storage brick we noticed the SATA Raid controller was not compatible with this specific SSD model and make. Then basic SATA power connectors failing one after ... 閱讀全文 »
SAN is almost complete now, some configurations remain to be done, but physical layer is complete. Cogent assigned today our 10Gbase-LR port and are waiting for demarcation information, after that, PtP connection between the buildings is done and we can setup the public network. Further, we developed our own temperature & climate monitoring ... 閱讀全文 »
