Stefano Marinelli on Nostr: A client has leased a new warehouse. Very spacious areas. There will be four big ...
A client has leased a new warehouse. Very spacious areas. There will be four big offices and a huge storage area, but it turns out that this is the only branch covered by FTTH at 2.5 Gbit/sec. I conducted a site visit to manage everything. Considering the type of users, I decided to order:
- MikroTik rb5009 POE as the router (will power the access points)
- 5 Access Points (I opted for Omada EAP772 - one for each office and one in the storage area, which is distant). The ceilings are huge since it’s an industrial building, so even though the offices are stacked two by two (but in completely opposite areas of the structure), the vertical signal penetration is very poor. The office units will therefore be set to the minimum power and centered; there will be drywall partitions that won’t block the signal. I will configure them to also use Wifi7, but I don’t think any of their devices support it - at least they are future-proof, and the supplier offers them at an interesting price.
- Both servers will be based on FreeBSD. They have two Dell r630 in excellent condition, decommissioned from the previous headquarters, one with 256GB of RAM and the other with 512GB. The first will be equipped with some 2TB SSDs (already in their possession, also decommissioned from a previous setup), obviously using ZFS, and will serve as a virtualization platform for the necessary VMs and jails. Not many, at the moment - it will host Nextcloud, some Windows VMs, the Omada controller, and their CMR software. The other server will be nearly identical but will also contain spinning disks to aggregate backups from other locations, currently hosted on my servers.
I will configure the router to ensure that, in case of disaster, those from other locations can be easily reconfigured to connect to the VMs - which will be able to start quickly on this secondary server, collecting backups from their other servers in different locations every 15 minutes. Additionally, it will also gather backups from the other server in the same structure every 5 minutes. Thanks to ZFS send/receive. Of course, this secondary server will be located in a completely different part of the building, on another electrical panel.
I have already started with the configurations, having some of the necessary devices, while I can pick up the rest of the hardware from the supplier this week. The client is laughing because he sees me “chomping at the bit” to get everything up and running while the fiber suppliers are “sleeping.” It’s always like this! 😆
#FreeBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin #MikroTik #NewSetup #Virtualization #bhyve
- MikroTik rb5009 POE as the router (will power the access points)
- 5 Access Points (I opted for Omada EAP772 - one for each office and one in the storage area, which is distant). The ceilings are huge since it’s an industrial building, so even though the offices are stacked two by two (but in completely opposite areas of the structure), the vertical signal penetration is very poor. The office units will therefore be set to the minimum power and centered; there will be drywall partitions that won’t block the signal. I will configure them to also use Wifi7, but I don’t think any of their devices support it - at least they are future-proof, and the supplier offers them at an interesting price.
- Both servers will be based on FreeBSD. They have two Dell r630 in excellent condition, decommissioned from the previous headquarters, one with 256GB of RAM and the other with 512GB. The first will be equipped with some 2TB SSDs (already in their possession, also decommissioned from a previous setup), obviously using ZFS, and will serve as a virtualization platform for the necessary VMs and jails. Not many, at the moment - it will host Nextcloud, some Windows VMs, the Omada controller, and their CMR software. The other server will be nearly identical but will also contain spinning disks to aggregate backups from other locations, currently hosted on my servers.
I will configure the router to ensure that, in case of disaster, those from other locations can be easily reconfigured to connect to the VMs - which will be able to start quickly on this secondary server, collecting backups from their other servers in different locations every 15 minutes. Additionally, it will also gather backups from the other server in the same structure every 5 minutes. Thanks to ZFS send/receive. Of course, this secondary server will be located in a completely different part of the building, on another electrical panel.
I have already started with the configurations, having some of the necessary devices, while I can pick up the rest of the hardware from the supplier this week. The client is laughing because he sees me “chomping at the bit” to get everything up and running while the fiber suppliers are “sleeping.” It’s always like this! 😆
#FreeBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin #MikroTik #NewSetup #Virtualization #bhyve