Re: [PLUG] DCAnet dropping DSL

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

In my case my home server (Dell 2950) is my training and playground for VMware. I
have two cisco switches trunked together with 2x LC fibre ( one in the
mobile half-height rack, and one in the house )   I also have multiple
VLANS running between the switches and also VLAN the incoming FIOS connection
(ONC) over LC into the rack ( I don't use any Verizon supplied firewall or router)

My perimeter firewall (Endian) now runs as a VM,  so all that traffic is VLAN'ed
into and out of ESX and back to the house.   My SAN is a Nexenta ZFS
implementation also running as a VM, and it's traffic VLAN'd off from the net.
Since ESX only has limited physical NIC's, you really have to VLAN everything.
Yes, ESX can even make use of storage created by a VM running on itself, and the
performance is better than most hardware based NAS's I've seen.

I'm originally not a network engineer,  so I needed to learn this all on
my own to support VMware.    So in my case I can't justify spending money
on the cloud,  as I still need local hardware.   Yes, I do push some
things up to S3, and have a hosted Zimbra service for email but that is about it.

I also have a playground for VMware View 5.1,  and remote clients such
as Android tablets can access any desktop remotely.  (Luckily as a VMware
partner I get NFR copies of VMware Enterprise+ and View for my lab.)

Regards,

Lee

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich Freeman" <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Monday, 23 July, 2012 10:54:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] DCAnet dropping DSL
> 
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Michael Leone
> <turgon@mike-leone.com> wrote:
> >
> > I gave up my home server about 4 years ago, once I realized I
> > didn't
> > really need a home server. :-)
> 
> I've been keeping mine for the most part, although the move towards
> mobile/cloud solutions has made me semi-migrate some stuff off of it.
> Right now my server receives most of my mail, but it just forwards it
> onto gmail/etc (yes, I know I can point my MX direct to Google - I
> prefer to be able to create addresses on a whim like the one I'm
> using
> here and know that all received mail is backed up).
> 
> For stuff like the odd web app it is a lot cheaper to just host my
> own
> solution and access it over FIOS than to run a VPS (Amazon or
> otherwise).  The TOS prohibits servers but Verizon doesn't care if
> once a month somebody looks at my photo album, and hosting 10GB of
> photos on a dedicated AWS server is just massive overkill.
> 
> Hosted solutions tend to make more sense when the main costs are
> bandwidth.  When the main costs are just having the server sitting
> there and storage, then hosting it at home is a lot cheaper, assuming
> that reliability isn't a big concern - the only thing the ISP sees is
> the bandwidth and if there isn't much they won't care.
> 
> If I were running a business I'd be much more likely to host it out
> of
> AWS/etc.  I do use S3 for my backups (just critical data, not
> everything on my hard drives - I'm paying more for it to be offsite
> than for storage per-se, and I use reduced redundancy storage to save
> money since the backup is already redundant).
> 
> Rich
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Lee Marzke, lee@marzke.net http://marzke.net/lee/ 
IT Consultant, VMware, VCenter, SAN storage, infrastructure, SW CM 

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