Can We Fix It? - Server Room Upgrade Part 2

[theanimun]

1 minute ago, Cubbiefan said:

how long will it take to become 1080 it has already been 2.5 hours

not sure, its still 360p for me as well

[thelastdoughnut2]

The vid was uploaded in 360p

[josephholten]

Is there anyone here that could make a schematic on the complete LTT network with all it's servers and their uses. As detailed as possible of course... Would appreciate any trying. Have always been very interested but never seemed to have a great overview

[kingmustard]

18 minutes ago, thelastdoughnut2 said:

The vid was uploaded in 360p

Fake news.

[TetraSky]

Video doesn't even load for me anymore... It used to load at 360p. 

Now the 720p option showed up, but since then, video outright doesn't load. Tried downloading it with jdownloader, it couldn't even get a single byte of data from it. 

What is in this video that Google just doesn't want us to see!?

 

Edit : Now everything works, 4k available... wtf was this all about. Like 3 hours of pure shit and suddenly a diamond was revealed in .01 second.

[theanimun]

its now showing 1080p for me

[Guest]

why not using nano though 

[HimymCZe]

arrested development footage not found; anyone?

[Canada EH]

4 hours ago, jakkuh_t said:

o figure out what went wrong...

Something stinks as Linus' face looks like something stinks in the server room. So it could be a frayed wire or something.

 

3 hours ago, test0123 said:

if they uploaded this video to Floatplane a week ago there is no excuse to upload it to YT 5 min before air...

LOL Linus has got to make his cash while he can. My guess is, is that the video is a filler video.

[Guest]

Why are they not using Synergy to run across their ingest computers? It would seem so much easier, given how many keyboards there are there.

[TuckTin12]

5 hours ago, Dectom said:

Just me or the only quality available for this video 360p 

i got 4k

 

[Danimacl]

As an electrician who does data work I am horrified when I see that patchwork. Cables coming in from all directions. These guys need a full time electrician and a full time network engineer. 

[xnamkcor]

20 minutes ago, Danimacl said:

As an electrician who does data work I am horrified when I see that patchwork. Cables coming in from all directions. These guys need a full time electrician and a full time network engineer. 

Because directionality matters in certain conditions, or because it just upsets you?

 

5 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Video doesn't even load for me anymore... It used to load at 360p. 

Now the 720p option showed up, but since then, video outright doesn't load. Tried downloading it with jdownloader, it couldn't even get a single byte of data from it. 

What is in this video that Google just doesn't want us to see!?

 

Edit : Now everything works, 4k available... wtf was this all about. Like 3 hours of pure shit and suddenly a diamond was revealed in .01 second.

It probably prioritised the one it could do the fastest, then worked on the best quality.

[Danimacl]

No, if you just keep adding to systems without any real plan you end up with patchwork garbage. I don't have any photos on my phone of any big clean networking installs that I have done but heres a photo of a job I just finalized today. When good networking guys terminate they don't even let any wires cross in their bundles. I feel they would be better served just having someone full time who isn't in a rush trying to get onto the next job. Having an electrician on site would definitely come in handy if you were running a media production studio. Think of all the lighting, power and networking in their building. 

 

[ThePointblank]

Hmm... the title...

Linus the tech nerd,

Can we fix it?

Linus the tech nerd,

Yes we can!

 

Edzel, Jake and Nick and Dennis too
Brandon and Yvonne join the crew
Linus and the gang have so much fun
Working together, they get the job done

 

Linus the Tech Nerd,
Can we fix it?
Linus the Tech Nerd,
Yes we can!
Linus the Tech Nerd,
Can we fix it?
Linus the Tech Nerd,
Yes we can!

 

Time to get busy, such a lot to do
Building and fixing 'til it's good as new
Linus and the gang make a really good sound
Working all day till the sun goes down

 

 

[Kadah]

Mistakes were made

 

Trying to do too many things in the same window.

 

No planning or strategy. Seems like it was mostly a general plan of action and them figuring out the details during. That's fine if Monday isn't a thing.

 

Replacing core network hardware but not configuring it beforehand when there was no time constraints.

 

Not labeling everything so not to spend lots of time looking for a cable or port.

 

Not just removing the door of the server rack. Usually those just easily lift off for this exact reason. Prop the server room door open and get that keyboard out of the way. That room is painfully small and it's like they tried to make it harder.

 

If servers are getting dusty, fix air filtration.

 

Unless reorganizing a rack, remove servers from service and the rack for maintenance and inventory one at a time. Don't further complicate everything by doing all at once plus lots of other stuff at the same time too. Kinda goes with the first point, do the different things in different maintenance windows.

 

If you have A thru Z tasks which could be independent of each other to varying extents, then you start A to Z all at once and get stuck on G and M for a very long time, you'll have to still finish and put back in to service the other 22 as well before Monday.

[Lurick]

7 hours ago, Danimacl said:

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I have some

 

The teardown:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The after:

 

[Danimacl]

One of my jobs is a former Nortel campus, a massive defunct Canadian telecom and network equipment manufacturer. That place nearly gives me a heart attack every time I walk in. The whole space is incredibly over engineered, not in a good way. It's just system upon system upon system. Now 40 years later the building is cripplingly complex and to do any work takes twice as long as it should. Alot of electrical equipment I just end up working on live because tracking each cct to one of a billion electrical panels or UPS's ends up taking too long. Come up with a plan when building or expanding your system and make sure to Kiss (keep it simple stupid), label your shit and remove old equipment and wiring when you aren't using it anymore. Spent alot of time just pulling RJ21 terminated 25pair CAT3 cables out. As I'm working I just just try to pull all the easy stuff out because they don't feel like paying me to do it even doing that you see a massive improvement. 

[Egg-Roll]

I'm waiting for Linus Porn Tips now thanks to this video...

 

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Having an electrician on site would definitely come in handy if you were running a media production studio. Think of all the lighting, power and networking in their building.

I'm going to assume when you say lighting you mean overhead and not the studio grade portable ones they actually plug in and own? If so I'm guessing those are up to code (due to lease agreements, if owned condo agreements, and oh yea the law...)

 

You don't really need someone to waltz in and take (or in this case steal) money from a company to manage the layout of the a few hundred Ethernet cables. Instead they could spend a few Saturdays to do it themselves, any electrical work can be done in one shot once everything is setup to do so and said person could inspect your work to ensure everything is ok, anyone refusing to check your own work (and get paid to do so) isn't worth the money.

 

All that said their setup is a mess but with 3 people (and a camera guy) what do you expect perfection? Apparently... I also don't think Linus expected to have grown as fast as he did in such a short time.

 

9 hours ago, Danimacl said:

I feel they would be better served just having someone full time who isn't in a rush trying to get onto the next job.

As said above, you're paying them if one notices the contractor rushing for no reason (AKA you told them money and time is no issue within reason) FIRE their ass because trust me I've seen what happens when some moron rushes threw something w/o being strictly told to do so.

 

16 hours ago, RorzNZ said:

Who doesn't screw in VGA cables though? It's how you connect them properly. 

One guess that's who.

[takagi19]

16 hours ago, josephholten said:

Is there anyone here that could make a schematic on the complete LTT network with all it's servers and their uses. As detailed as possible of course... Would appreciate any trying. Have always been very interested but never seemed to have a great overview

 

[BitJockey]

These two videos made me cringe in so many ways. Networking - by the seat of your pants. And changing so many things at one time. Not good guys, not good.

[Mclaren Al]

I agree that Ubiquiti hardware adoption can be super annoying and very problematic. I do have to say that most of issues in this video are due to not handling the network first prior to plugging everything in. I can relate to the adoption issues with the hardware. I just setup two UniFi controllers on a preexisting network at home and at work last week. Instead of ranting about Ubiquiti’s broken migration tool, I'll explain how to avoid adoption issues across different subnets.

 

First take the config file from within the controller under the maintenance tab. If you try taking the config file from the export site setup, it will break the database every time. If you run into issues with your controller and find that you have to factory reset other hardware. Access The device on its preexisting subnet, go to its IP without the port number and Adopt the device to your controller from there. Just change the IP on the inform to match the Cloud Key. You will most likely have to access your Cloud Key on another workstation that's on its Subnet. At this point in time it should automatically be trying adopted the device to your Cloud Key and show that the Subnet of the other devices matches.

 

This should prevent you from having to reconfigure all of your subnets to all your different Vlans and servers or Workstations.

[Salv8 (sam)]

[dmnc]

I still don't know if this was some "upgrade" or just hunting some problems and solving them with "start over everywhere" method. The problem is still unknown or just not published?

 

It's nice that you'll have monitoring guys but don't forget to make some configuration backups too.

 

For example the UniFi ... this system is nice but very tricky. If you are resetting the UniFi Controller (in your case running on the UC-CK cloud key which has two parts for configuration and which you can reset - the network config of the own linux based device and then the Java based UniFi Controller - SDN), you can recover the backup of the site and everything will be ok. Or you can read the credentials for USW and UAP to readopt them in the new site/controller if you enabled the ssh before (Settings - Site - Device authentication section on the bottom of the page). Without the backup or knowing the credentials, you need to physically reset them to the default setting. Anyway as @electrowiz64 suggested the upgrade, if your UniFi network is big, forgot about the UC-CK which is very weak. With the XG Server you can cover other UniFi solutions but if you have just around 5 APs and camera PVR/NVR is not from UBNT then keep the cloud key.

 

But tell me guys, why did you change the subnets and remove the vlans? You have to change IPs on every bloody device it seems to be a very crazy idea. And if this change was in the plan and if you are not using DHCP with reservations then simply change IPs in all devices and then the router (please tell me that you are not using UniFi gateway as a router) and at last change your computer. I mean you can do everything from your chair. For this kind of operation is better to use some linux laptop because adding multiple IPs to the Windows machine is kinda click-fest in comparison with linux. Not counting the PowerShell because syntax is crazy and I don't know if one have to white complete words or just parts (like `ip a s` instead of `ip address show` on linux).

 

 

Anyway great show!

[TechyBen]

4 minutes ago, dmnc said:

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Anyway great show!

It is the Upgrade to 10gb internet (IIRC, unless it's 100GB ), and upgrading the modem + routers to do it.

 

Did the Laptop really get killed by POE? Hope it can be fixed.

 

PS, don't go to hard on Jake... hopefully he will mellow out. Without going into too much detail, and hopefully not an embarrassment to him, I can understand where he is coming from.