Network Upgrade and Rack cleanup
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@johnpoz but now it's boring, no more half an hour following a cable to see where it goes! :).
Great work, no incidents caused?
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@patient0 not that aware of - have to look into something with the card readers in one of the buildings this morning - but we didn't do anything in that building so its prob not related.
We did make a few mistakes in tracing wires, but we caught them very quickly when checking devices were on the right vlan, etc..
And sure there were a few brief outages when couldn't get the cable plugged in fast enough so the interface on other end reset. If you can move the cable in like 2-3 seconds normally the other end won't reset and you might loose like 1 ping..
And sure the phones that are poe had to reset, and AP when we moved those - but did the AP after hours, or on the weekend and we only did a couple of APs at a time - so clients should of just moved over to another AP while the ones we moved rebooted on loss of poe.
But we didn't get any complaints that xyz was down, etc. But will see over the next couple of days ;)
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@johnpoz
OMG it looks like the panel had barfed spaghetti! :o -
@Phizix yeah it was insane - its for sure not the worse have ever seen but yeah pretty bad.. There were cables that crossed from one rack to other - there were cables wrapped around bunches of other cables..
Whole trip was 5 days.. With other than the last day being 12+ hours each.. First day we spent some time unboxes and configuring all the switches. Takes some time to unbox 19 switches and configure them in stacks, and then load base config.. Then take them to the location - its campus really with multiple buildings, and you know where we had room to configure the switches was a few buildings away. At least we didn't have to sit on the floor with laptop consoled in to configure them all ;)
We had 1 ups go missing, stuff had been delivered months ago - and the ups was received, but nowhere to be found. So the switches in that first rack, the 2nd psu in each switch is still on raw power until we get replacement ups.
We spent the last day final touches on cabling - pulling the old 5412s out of the racks and configuring the sup modules for use as spares for the other 5412s left on the network - those are slated for replacement sometime later this year or early next. But this dual rack was by far the worse, the other racks are more like the 1st rack.
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@johnpoz Nice work John.
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Excellent work!
Our DC stays clean for 2 reasons, only 10 people can get in and the floor manager is not to be trifled with, I got fussed at more than once. The closets vary by location, some of the site manages are picky, others are not.Good luck keeping it clean.
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I love this kind of work (hardware and wiring), you can see in the evening what you have done...
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@slu well it took a few days to see what we had done ;)
Here are some pictures after day 1, 2 and then 3.. The fourth day was final clean up and removal of the old 5412s
Those boxes there with the old cables we filled up a few of those ;) It went faster as we worked through the cables and clearing them out - we had to go 1 cable at a time to minimize any disruption to production..
It was a real rats nest at the bottom.. Tracing each cable took a while, especially when first started.. After that first day it didn't even look like we had accomplished anything..
And we couldn't even get all the switches into the racks at first without clearing cables so their was enough slack to slide in the next switch in the stack, etc.
For a while they we were wondering if we wouldn't finish before we were schedule to fly home. But after day 2 we could actually see progress.
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@johnpoz Pic 1 looks like someone came across a "too good to pass up" discount on 5 and 7 meter cables.
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Nice!
