My network is bigger than yours ;)

Summary

The video follows Linus Tech Tips as they upgrade their studio's network infrastructure for improved redundancy and reliability. They install new high-capacity Dell switches, reconfigure cabling, and set up dual internet connections across buildings. Despite setbacks like taking down connectivity and making a mess of cables, they persevere to complete the upgrade. The end result is a robust network that can survive equipment failure, benefiting productivity and reducing costs from potential outages.

Takeaways

• 😊 They upgraded their network infrastructure for improved redundancy and reliability
• 👨‍💻 The upgrades involved new 100Gb switches, servers, routers etc.
• 🤯 The infrastructure upgrades aim to prevent entire network failures
• 😅 They tried to be careful but still had some mishaps during the upgrade process
• 🛠️ The upgrade was complex, with many interconnections and dependencies to manage
• 🔧 They rebuilt parts of the network from scratch for better long-term management
• 🏗️ The upgrades required installing a massive new server rack and rearranging equipment
• 🤔 Figuring out configuration and connections between devices took a lot of effort
• 💡 Despite issues, they got improved redundancy working to prevent future outages
• 📶 The upgraded infrastructure enables new capabilities like internet connection sharing

Q & A

What kind of networking equipment does the studio have?

The studio has 48 ports of 25 gigabit networking for the editors and ingest stations, as well as six 100 gigabit uplinks to the servers.

What happens if the main network switch fails?

If the main network switch fails or has any issues, the entire network goes down not just in the studio but also in the lab and Creator Warehouse.

Why did they decide to build a new server rack?

They built a new taller and wider server rack to provide more rack space and to be able to rearrange the equipment to the front of the rack for easier access.

What switches did they install in the new rack?

They installed two S5248F-ON switches, which have 32 ports that run at 100 gigabit each and can be split into 4x25 gigabit ports.

What was the main goal of the infrastructure changes?

The main goal was to add redundancy and resiliency to the network by connecting all devices downstream to both core switches so that if one switch fails, connectivity is maintained.

How can the new switches act as routers?

The powerful enterprise switches have robust operating systems that allow configuring multiple VLANs and efficiently routing traffic between them at line speed.

What is virtual link trunking?

Virtual link trunking allows interconnectivity between multiple switches so that if one switch fails, traffic can still be routed through the remaining switches.

Did they achieve full redundancy by the end?

No, they did not have time to fully configure the redundancy before needing to leave, but the basic network connectivity was working.

What physical challenges did they encounter?

Challenges included limited space in the server room, difficulty accessing the back of the rack, and dealing with messy legacy cabling.

How will the changes benefit the studio?

The new infrastructure will provide greatly improved reliability, easier access for maintenance, and room to grow.

Outlines

00:00

😄 Talking about the studio's fast networking setup and a network failure

Paragraph 1 discusses the studio's advanced networking setup with 48 ports of 25Gb networking and 6 100Gb uplinks to servers. It then jokes about the internet breaking down due to reliance on a single core network switch purchased off eBay.

05:03

😅 Poking fun at the backup networking gear

Paragraph 2 continues joking about the studio's reliance on a single core switch. It mocks the backup networking gear brought in by 'Jake' for being only aesthetically better but likely improperly configured.

10:04

🤓 Moving networking equipment to a new rack

Paragraph 3 details moving networking equipment like switches and routers into a new wide server rack for better cable management. Difficulties fitting the large rack and maneuvering it into place are described.

15:05

😮 Consolidating equipment to the front of the rack

Paragraph 4 covers consolidating the networking equipment to the front of the new rack for improved accessibility. The history of the messy cabling situation is discussed.

20:05

🤔 Explaining the benefits of using switches as routers

Paragraph 5 has 'Andy' ask 'Jake' to explain the rationale behind using the new switches as routers. 'Jake' talks about capabilities like inter-VLAN routing and bandwidth considerations.

25:07

😊 Wrapping up rack updates and sponsor thanks

Paragraph 6 concludes with finalizing rack updates, thanking video sponsors like Dell and Hammond, and thanking the viewers.

Keywords

💡Network redundancy

Network redundancy refers to having duplicate or backup systems, equipment, or connections in a network infrastructure. In the video, the hosts upgrade their networking equipment to add redundancy and prevent single points of failure. For example, they install redundant core switches, routers, and internet connections across two buildings.

💡Toolless rails

Toolless rails are a type of rack rail that can be installed without needing tools. The hosts praise the toolless rails on the new networking switches as being easy to install compared to previous equipment.

💡Direct attached cables

Direct attached cables are used to interconnect devices within a rack or cluster. The hosts use direct attached cables to connect their redundant Dell switches so traffic can failover between them if one switch goes down.

💡Virtual link trunking

Virtual link trunking (VLT) allows two core switches to appear as a single virtual switching fabric, providing redundancy and resilience. The hosts use VLT between the Dell switches so if one switch fails, the network still operates normally.

💡Inter-VLAN routing

VLANs (virtual local area networks) segment devices into logical groups for security and traffic management. Inter-VLAN routing allows communication between VLANs. The hosts plan to use the switches for fast inter-VLAN routing rather than routing traffic through firewalls.

💡OpenFlow

OpenFlow is a network protocol that allows direct software control of network switches and routers. The hosts imply they may use OpenFlow on the new switches as flexible software-defined routers rather than dedicated router appliances.

💡BGP

BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is used for routing traffic between different networks and autonomous systems. The hosts want to use BGP and OSPF routing between their two buildings for redundant internet connectivity.

💡Tech debt

Technical debt refers to deficiencies in a codebase or infrastructure that build up over time. The hosts have to deal with years of accumulated technical debt and messy cabling from previous configurations.

💡Spaghetti cabling

Spaghetti cabling refers to disorganized cables going in all directions without proper management. The hosts frequently use this term to describe the cabling they have to fix and organize.

💡Cold spare

A cold spare is a redundant backup component that is offline or unused until needed. The hosts plan to keep one of their old 10Gb switches as a cold spare in case the new switches fail.

Highlights

Describes having 48 ports of 25 gigabit networking for editors and ingest stations with 6 x 100 gig uplinks to servers.

Explains that one network switch failing can bring down the entire network across multiple buildings.

Introduces sponsor T-Mobile and their customizable, affordable phone plans.

Describes purchasing a used network switch on eBay 3 years ago that is a single point of failure.

Shows new redundant network setup with two Dell 32 port 100 gigabit switches connected to each other.

Explains virtual link trunking between Dell switches to provide redundancy if one switch fails.

Discusses using enterprise switches as routers with robust operating systems for efficient inter-VLAN routing.

Describes messy cabling from various contractors over 8 years creating tech debt and Frankenstein solutions.

Explains rebuilding cabling from front of rack instead of back to make it easier to access and manage.

Shows flexible optics that can turn any cable into Dell-compatible to ensure peak performance.

Describes replacing cage nuts in racks with rack studs for easier hardware installation.

Shows completed front cabling with servers moved over to new rack for improved access.

Explains taking down entire studio network to rebuild cabling, despite telling admin only 20 mins.

Discusses new setup providing redundancy so core switches can be restarted without network outage.

Shows completed infrastructure rack and rider's rack with massively improved cable management.

Transcripts

the networking in our studio is pretty

epically fast I mean look at this that

is 48 ports of 25 gig networking for our

editors and our inest stations not to

mention these six 100 Gig uplinks to our

servers but uh watch this why is my

internet broken oh not again Jake why

does this always happen if this one

network switch ever dies or even has an

issue our entire network goes down and

not just here in the studio but also in

the lab and here in Creator Warehouse

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custom plans now In fairness toell even

though we bought this switch on eBay 3

years ago we've never had an outage that

was caused by it or either of our other

Dell switches but the fact that it

hasn't happened yet what the holy

doesn't mean it couldn't happen someday

in the future after all these switches

are basically just really reliable fancy

computers but one reliable point of

failure that's not how we roll

anymore mostly this my friends is how

it's

done oh my God lonus it looks good right

Hey Jake helped I just died inside you

made me feel so bad of the one I did

over there all that needs is some patch

cables and it'll be good as new wait

they made it even better uh-oh I already

saw it before Jake I haven't seen it

like literally at all yeah it's um oh

wow that's that's nice yeah I mean it's

you know it's nothing you know like what

we did oh which is good we made like

lifechanging improvements this is really

just aesthetic it's cosmetic yeah what

is this this is a awful yeah they've got

that one cable out of place you see them

hiding back there Bo yeah boo what's

this cable here it looks like it's a

special cable the question now though is

not how good does ours look how good

does theirs look that's not what

anybody's interested in especially us

right Jake ours is better the question

is is it all configured correctly so

that I can come in here rip the power

out of this switch and the whole network

stays online can I Stand On This Server

that's fine right but I mean you're

already doing it you guys ready hold on

hold on hold on Jake you're not going to

get more ready in the next 5 Seconds

here we're ready oh my

God okay let's go find out come on come

on Andy don't cut the

camera hey how's your editing going good

good see you later I honestly have no

idea if you don't even work at that desk

d what are you doing hi is your computer

running it is running then you should go

Ahad and catch

it Network

working oh good everything was fine and

nothing bad happens that's normal and

that's what we expect is it actually

working I mean it should work Jake what

of course it's working yeah to be clear

it's better to just have them both

up what I'm just going to put this back

but that was pretty cool right that is

where these come into play and I'm

really excited to tell you about these

new switches but before I can do that

we're going to have to make some room in

the server room oh I make some room in

the other server room that one's going

to be bad to be clear it's not like we

couldn't put the s which is here it's

just that when we specked out this room

we didn't realize we were going to be

putting such long servers into this rack

and we ended up with some clearance

issues with our pdu see look I can't

even use any of the plugs down here

whoops fortunately we have a solution

this custom painted orange rack from

Hammond Manufacturing is both wider and

significantly taller than our existing

one is this going to fit in the room oh

boy at least it looks like we have a

plan the rack goes on here and then we

push right W yeah those are mint this

thing weighs 350 lb cool oh uh I think

this is not going to work gentlemen new

plan we're putting it on the pallet jack

and we're going outside what could go

wrong I can't see a damn thing oh boy

and then it goes downhill hold on well

we may want to no go for it it's good

we're good we're good okay we've done

stupider things uh yeah we've done

stupider things recently you weren't

there for the 115in TV oh that was

really stupid since we're walking I've

got some speeds and feeds for this thing

it's basically the canyonero of server

racks 7 ft tall 30 in wide 48 rack units

and it weighs in excess of 350 lb that's

without any hardware in it what well yes

I I well that's what I asked you guys I

didn't have any plan I planned to hire

experts who would have good plans for

how to do things oh my God are you sure

about this oh yeah if I die make sure

you catch it on camera oh yeah yeah it

would clear just fine no it will clear

okay all right not so

bad okay stop stop stop stop oh okay Mis

it won't move now says oh it's moving

too fast okay fine go

woo all right okay now hold on just a

gosh darn second here holding how is

there going to be room to maneuver this

thing in there is that is the other rat

coming out we didn't think this through

they're not bolted on not bolted no

their feet so there it is right there

defeat don't scr

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the hey nice wow these casters though

this thing is built better than some

houses it's oh and bigger too don't step

on that door I'm not going to step on

the door God literally stepping on the

door I'm not stepping on the door I'm

stepping on the cross braces that are by

the door part of the door well it's

doorish I mean look look at this I got

my full weight on it's not even doing

anything we can get rid of those cage

nuts immediately we'll be using rack

studs available now LT TV store.com o

what was that noise what was that noise

it's a good

noise and yep there we go this is

probably enough space for the other one

right yeah it should be all right waa

stopping there Cable Management who

needs it see look how useful you are one

two three one two three one two yeah now

you can go to the side just a bit slowly

yeah yeah yeah no no they're good

they're okay now what you guys it takes

up the whole room

this is your new bedroom We Ready boys

barely boy hi there okay shove towards

us

moving okay that's definitely the paint

I think we're going to have a bit of a

Timber moment here I'm trying to get to

Dan okay perfect okay

yeah okay holy sh balls this thing is

huge yeah this is ridiculous what were

you guys thinking we could have just put

two racks in here you need more rack

units oh we're doing that anyways oh you

saw saw the other rack right what other

rack there's another one of these yeah

yeah for where here put put we're

just're

[Laughter]

just look at the color on that wow it's

got a combination lock on the back oh my

God there's a Dan inside get get him out

get him out it is really roomy wait this

is the back then it's front and back oh

sort of sort of the back this is for

patch cables and stuff

cool Dan used nerd punch it's as

effective as it ever is in all

seriousness though what are we planning

to put in here are we transplanting

everything y so an Dale goes at the

bottom switches and everything goes at

the top and then that one's leaving no

that stays well what's going to go in it

that's going to be the rider rack so

that when Jake wants to mess with all of

our networking gear he doesn't take down

the entire lab and cost you tens of

thousands of dollars a minute well wo

woah woah wo I mean the cost's not that

high okay it's a slight hyper bully but

you know and there it is the real reason

we're doing any of this because Jake

wants a play toys

rack cuz we could have made this work I

don't know this is much better I said we

could have made it work any Dale doesn't

even fit in it it's in it right now

barely not all of it we're going to

leave my play things in there which is

like half of it so my it's not actually

that bad yeah but the networking is the

worst part that's why you have Sean and

I yeah I was thinking we go do more fun

things than just leave them to do the

grunt work yeah and then it'll be done

properly at least half of it will be

done properly you guys

ready yeah look at that that's awesome

oh so easy almost as awesome as this

switch I'm ready to tell you guys a

little bit about it this right here is

the S

5232 f- n it's got 32 ports that run at

100 gbit Each of which can be split out

into 425 5 GB ports it has a total

switching capacity of 3.2 terabit per

second half duplex so 6.4 then

bidirectionally and these things are

massively configurable because when I

say they're going to be the topof rack

switches on both this side and over at

the studio I mean they're going to be a

pair of top oh God that's heavy top no

no I got it I got it a pair of top of

rack switches because the main point of

what we're doing today is to add

resiliency and redundancy to our Network

by the time we're done I'm going to be

able to take one of these rip the

freaking power connector out of it and

the whole Network's going to stay up

right yeah they each have redundant

power supplies wow 750 watts that's not

as much I guess it's just Optics there's

no Poe right yeah that's a lot for not

powering anything else and ooh easily

serviceable fan modules of course it's a

right management

Adele Management Port and and I love the

rails these things come with they're

toolless and super easy to install these

might be the easiest toolless rails I've

ever used 46 and 44 all right Boop yeah

this rack's too tall for me to work in

this is my maximum reach I have to Tippy

Toe is this the work safe approved way

to do

this oh God oh God I can't reach oh God

no I'm kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding I

will I will note that he is standing on

the bottom of the rack to give extra

height I am stable in on the bottom of

the rack look here's a banana for scale

yep Linus is still short lt.com

baby oo this might actually be too nice

for us that's why it's sha andiz and you

get the other one got him infrastructure

rack and the rider's rack I'm getting

very close to just requisitioning this

rack as my own man this is a fine rack

but it has super small PP energy next to

this one this side is going to have its

own challenges because as much as we've

tried to keep things organized we're

looking at about 8 years of total Tech

debt and Frankenstein Solutions yeah i'

like recable Managed IT like 3 years ago

but I did it a couple times before that

it always just kind of turns into

spaghetti the good news is in the long

term I think what we're going to do is

move everything around to the front of

the rack and move the Vault and maybe

some of the other servers over here to

the lab side because we've got a nice

fast link that we worked out with the

city between the two buildings now is

this the part where we just start

ripping stuff out uh well Gary kind of

wanted to keep internet but too bad I

guess our transceivers don't come out

Jake oh God yeah that switch got a

little bonked a long time ago and well

in in transit from eBay to us oh great

so now I get to do this to keep our

fibers safe you could just send it and

I'll just clean them after sorry Gary I

unplugged the internet update for you

guys we came up with a brilliant idea

these switches don't have a ton of vlans

configured on them but this one does cuz

that runs a bunch of our security stuff

so we figure okay if we just unplug

everything then maybe we can move this

down three notches where it needs to go

according to the plan without actually

unplugging anything yeah good luck

everybody okay you can pull it out now

ready no no no top one top one oh sure

the top one doesn't have handles Jake

got it yeah there we go we only need one

of these 48 P 10 gig switches now so

we're going to keep the original one and

then we're going to hold on to the one

below it as kind of a cold spare pull it

out that's fine okay we were a much

smaller company when we configured all

of this and you're quite sure you don't

support the idea of just having the

other room be the main server room

correct wait you're not just knocking

cage nuts into the rack are you a little

bit well Jake C that came out that's

fine okay other side now tell everyone

your great idea he hates it when I'm

right but he likes it when it saves him

a bunch of work I'm sitting here going

we only Built from both sides of this

rack because we had no space yeah well

now we have space you just watched us

install it so why don't we just move

everything around to the front and then

this is hilarious remember that switch

that we were super concerned about

moving because of all the vlans well

guess

what I just took every cable

painstakingly and plugged it into a

dummy switch for now and then I'm going

to pass them around to the front of the

rack and I'll just be like okay one two

and we'll rebuild it from the front if

it's stupid and it works it's not stupid

yeah I I like this because I've wanted

to do this for in February it will have

been 8 years I never did this because I

liked it or I thought it was a great

idea it was always janky we just didn't

have anywhere else in the studio to put

rackm equipment you know the the main

reason I wanted to do the mother Vault

aside from the old one being Jank was so

we had more rack space so I could

eventually do this nice it's been a long

time coming so basically fiber patch

router one router two we don't have both

of them so it'll just be one of them for

now Dell patch Dell patch Dell patch I

think there will not be enough devices

plugged into these two that we will need

two patch panels very likely only one

way to find out do we just YOLO and hope

that it goes well sure oh hold on

there's locks on the strain reliefs on

the power and everything okay all right

jeez man okay you're good that's my baby

yeah yeah yeah new new

new oneic four the planted was not to

just Strip This rack but that's done now

what time is it right now it is 2:00 we

have an hour let's go fast oh my God we

need to move all these patch panels now

which is nice uh they're all labeled

which is great except a bunch of them

are not it's all of the ones lonus did

that aren't labeled you got that last

one yeah oh yeah that's it okay dummy

switch comes out okay now we start going

fast I love how the payoff for this

video is going to be so much worse than

what we started with yeah like the

server room is just like destroyed but

one day when Shawn and Dan spend three 3

days recable managing this it will be

great we have two of our switches

installed we got the Dells racked in

here fiber patch panel we got the

microti running temporarily to keep

internet running for Gary while we

switch everything over sorry Gary and uh

yeah everything's racking well the lots

of cable management is beautiful and

everything's coming together right Dan

yeah we got the pdus here too which is

great come on oh god oh my god there are

hard drives in that fine all right here

we go

that was not very good I don't even care

that much when you kind of drop a hard

drive now that I remember back to when

you actually yeed a hard drive totally

lived this is such a relief I remember

the conversations back when we decided

to build from both sides of the rack and

we were like well this is the only way

we can fit all the stuff so I guess

we're stuck with it but I hated it then

I hate it now this is so much better

it's almost like we have two server

rooms or something now and the other one

isn't a Harry Potter closet you know

that these stairs are so wide because

this room needed to be wider right so

what you're saying is this is entirely

your fault yes the issue is that we

realistically couldn't afford more so

I'm not going to apologize for it we cut

all the cabling from the ceiling so now

we have to fix all that cuz it wouldn't

fit we've got all of our networking gear

in here now and the back actually looks

tidy now I'm trying to make up for the

sin that I costed in the ceiling right

now we have Al what used to be Alpha Del

which is our 48 port

s4048 in we're putting these ethernet

patch panels in a spot that is

eventually going to become a like bber

patch panel but we can just pop the

keystones out at that point or rather

Dan and Sean can and then I guess we're

just moving more patch panel like it's

awful I know but it's going to be great

one day this is about to get interesting

we have to put the two new Dell switches

the 32 Port 100 Gig ones here and here

which would be fine if the various

contractors who had come in at various

stages in this building's history hadn't

made complete spaghetti out of all the

cables going into the patch panels uh I

don't know if they're going to fit in

here I never know quite how this happens

but every time you clean up a server

closet or like a tech room you find all

these things that are not plugged into

anything man this is going to be awesome

being able to like restart one of your

core switches and the entire network not

go down I like and all those years in

the early days Jake using rails that

were not tooless and whatever the

cheapest rack mount stuff that I could

find was I did not know what I was

missing oh well you actually got it in

for once good job yeah yeah yeah yeah

yeah these things are flipping crazy

Overkill when Jake told me what we were

getting I was like why we have no

application that actually requires these

but I think really it's less to do with

the speed and more to do with getting

the latest OS and all the latest

features oh I haven't even told you the

long-term plan is pretty cool it

involves having two routers here at the

very Le we want them to be redundant if

our open sense router poops the bed I

have no idea what I just unplugged the

other one takes over automatically sure

the long-term plan is we have two

routers at both buildings and an

internet connection at both buildings

hear me out what I don't want to pay for

two internet connection oh yeah whatever

we'll figure that part out and then we

can use OPF or bgp to like route the two

buildings and if one internet connection

were to go down for whatever reason we

could assume the other building's

internet connection over here and vice

versa so redundant internet connection

redundant routers redundant core

switches also these switches are

probably going to be our routers at some

point and then the open sense boxes will

just be a firewall um so cool that

second internet connection better be

just like a basic residential thing yeah

it can't really be I'm not paying for

two internet connections it's not

happening I don't really care I'm good

with my my want can you stop knocking

cage nuts into the wack I mean it's not

not as bad as it used to be when we had

servers that had the backs of them open

all the time I remember this one time

one of the servers was open it was one

of the 45 drives ones and I knocked

something into it and it sparked God oh

God and then I never told anybody and

nothing ever happened but something was

dead in it said the best part of this is

that everything uses rack studs now I

can ask Luke to make it one of their

quarterly goals to take all the old cage

nuts out of here right I think if we had

a networking Esports team like from our

networking and info department they

should call themselves The Rack studs

like since the name it's a great team

name yeah there's definitely an

appropriate amount of patch panels per

number of ports here definitely you

mentioned earlier we're going to

transition to using these new switches

as our router but I think for most of

the consumers out there that doesn't

make a lot of sense but yeah thanks Andy

but Enterprise switches are very

powerful they have very robust operating

systems why would we not setup effort

High reward pretty good but why do

people care about those things for us

it's mostly inter VLAN routing you can

imagine a VLAN it's a virtual Network

it's kind of like you had 20 virtual

routers you could have 20 VLS and 20

networks it's all kind of in one the big

thing is if you want to pass traffic

between networks which maybe that sounds

why do you have them split well

sometimes you want one device to talk to

a device in a different network even

though you don't want all of the devices

to talk like a writer's workstation

being separated from an editor's

workstation well if they both want to

access a server and they're separated

it's got to pass over right now that

would happen on our open sense machine

which it's pretty fast so it's probably

okay but imagine you're doing 10 20 gbit

it's going to start to become a

bottleneck and this is just running

commodity some kind of mainstream Zeon

processor in it whereas these switches

are running as6 that are flipping

optimized for networking yeah you can

imagine it would do that at line Speed

without issue and the other thing is it

will be local so if that's happening in

the lab between two networks in the lab

it doesn't have to come back to here in

the studio it can happen there so you're

it's just way more efficient also the

the internet connection sharing thing I

talked about earlier but okay here we go

sounds like maybe that's not going to

happen

yet oh oh hi Jake this is

awesome so good it would have taken us

so much longer to do this from the back

we would have gotten to the point where

it's time to plug everything back in and

go on oh crap I forgot how hard it is to

reach in here and access the power

outlets and on everything just G

speaking of accessing things let me

access my Flex box oh this thing is so

cool have I showed you this before yes I

did at the land party yes did uh Flex

Optics aside from making Optics also

makes direct attached cables we're going

to be using these to interconnect our

Dells uh taking it back to that

redundancy thing for them to be

redundant they need to be connected

every device Downstream of these is now

going to be connected to both so if one

switch dies this magical

cable will allow the

connection to Traverse between them but

in order to make sure that these cables

are going to operate with Peak

Performance and reliability you're

supposed to use Dell Optics except that

sounds expensive well they actually sent

us some and then they never arrived cool

the cool thing about Flex Optics you

plug them into here open an app on your

phone and I can type you know Dell 100

Gig 1 meter and this becomes Dell 100

Gig 1 meter and you plug it into the

switch the Dell switch doesn't even know

that it's not a Dell cable awesome as

far as it's concerned it's D all right

time to put some servers back in the

rack

crazy Overkill serers so you guys think

it's me driving the completely Overkill

infrastructure that we build around here

but often it's in spite of me I'm at my

if it works don't touch it stage of my

life uh well we got the whole front

patched in all the mvrs are in

everything's patched up everything's

good to go Dan is doing cabling in the

back and all we have left to move over

to the infrastructure rack is anell

which does all of our offsite backups

from Studio so that's all that's left

move that over finish up cleaning the

cabling and then we're pretty much done

here and waiting for Studio to come back

up online yeah they took down the whole

building yeah they took down the

internet everything all I told I told

Gary 20 minutes it's been two 2 hours or

4 whatever and then yeah any Dale and

tidying and putting the shelving away

and cleaning up out there and putting

the sides back on oh Dam I'm putting the

doors back on it doesn't look like much

right now but man is this ever easier to

work on and we are really close to being

ready to fire this up these are just all

editing workstations right so I don't

have to worry about any VLAN nonsense or

anything uh

thetically yeah yeah I mean right now

this switch is connected to the router

and it's it's getting the vlans now I'm

just about to connect our ubiquity 48

Port so we can have Wi-Fi cuz that will

make my life supremely easier also you

never plug the power into it which one

you big buy you know I've been doing

stuff here okay doesn't look like it

I've been doing lots of stuff go plug

that in will you I'm working on it come

on boy get it together hey I'm working

here oh Jake went away he wanted to show

you guys something he made a number

two good job Jake good job why f up okay

great all right that's good now where's

the Goddamn Cloud what was the problem

did we ever figure that out the problem

was they were switched not switched like

Network switched

like hey there we go it adopted and like

remembered it's config now okay great

nice the Wi-Fi definitely works hey guys

hi thought you guys were supposed to be

the professionals our cable management

on the other side looks so much better I

tried really hard our side looks like

actual pasta ah yeah I thought I'd uh

try and absolve myself of this sin yeah

uh no this looks great this is amazing

you know what came in really handy is

these guys here aren't yeah yeah yeah

LTT store.com soonm Cable

Management boom it holds anything

anywhere it's awesome absolutely

phenomenal yeah especially the big one

you can take like a big old freaking

thing and like all of these are just one

of those yeah exactly that's what I'm

talking about in all seriousness how are

you guys doing here it looks pretty

close yeah we're nearing the end here we

just got to deal with some of these

power cables and then of course get

these back up onto the ceiling sure um

and then I think that's about it okay we

gave up you gave

up I mean we told Gary 20

minutes to take lunch so that we would

be back up and then we immediately moved

the micro tick and got everything ready

so that Gary could continue doing his

job yeah so here's the thing we got

about 30% of the way through and

realized that moving everything at the

back of the rack was going to take way

longer than just pulling everything out

and rebuilding it all from the front so

that when it's time for you guys to UNS

spaghet the thing at least you can see

what the heck you're doing so that's

what we did yeah we are not going to get

the full redundancy that thing up and

running today oh why because it is time

for Jake to go to the airport okay well

we still got Sean and I it's also time

for me to leave okay so we're staying

here till 1:00 a.m. no oh as long as the

network works we don't need the

redundancy working okay I know I'm

acting all surprised and stuff but it

should work and it does work for a

number of reasons I mean you can see in

the UniFi thing there's only one

Upstream online on all of those switches

right the second one hasn't rebooted yet

every single switch Downstream of the

Dells is connected to both of them and

then both of the Dells are connected to

that link we have through the street to

the other building yeah and they're also

connected to each other with something

called VT or virtual link trunking um

traditionally you would have like an

lacp or an aggregate link between two

switches well the Dell takes it up a

notch and instead of just between two

switches it's between one switch and two

ones above it and if one of them goes

down you still have the Redundant link

and it just works what's even cooler is

if you have a situation where it's not

like the switch just died entirely it's

more like the fiber got cut or the

direct attached cable is screwy and it

needs to get something on a switch that

it's not currently connected to it will

like route over the connection between

the two Dells and back to that switch

and what's even more cool is that it

only took

like 5 minutes to set that feature up

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it or not it was even worse yeah big

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