three on one well, or in three separate rooms? What's the zigbee button at the doorway for? is that for the ipad or just an automation?
Someone mentioned magnetic tape, I think that would be great for the fridge among other things. And yes, I wouldn't mind monitoring the homelab from the fridge lol.
For Christmas I'll probably upgrade the kids and wife's iPads and in return I'll have a few iPads hanging around. I was curious how I could use these in my home network/homelab environment. Cli monitors? Grafana monitors? Spice/vnc monitors?
If you use, or have good ideas on how to incorporate three iPads I'd like to hear your creativity!
I'm planning on upgrading my r720xd's changing the quad 1gb port card for a quad 2x 10gb, 2x 1gb card. I'm trying to conceptualize how this work as I'm still new to home networking. I have a 48 port 1gb switch and will be getting a 10gb sfp+ switch.
The 10gb switch will use an rj45 to connect to the main switch. And the four servers will connect to the 10gb switch via sfp+.
How do I use the 1gb ports on the dtr card? Do they run at the same time to the primary switch? Are they used only as fail over? If so does that mean that most of the traffic, that's not between the servers themselves, will go through the primary switch at 1gb speeds?
I'm trying to figure out how to make sure that the high bandwidth traffic goes through the sfp+ ports and not through the 1gb ports when the 1gb ports are in use.
I enjoy buying used enterprise gear because a) it's cheaper than most other networking gear and 2) because it's enterprise I usually don't have to worry about overpowering the equipment with my home setup.
I'm looking at used 10gb switches on ebay for less than $200 but find that even though there are plenty of options they're either vastly too complicated, like blade switches, or require licenses and I'm not that familiar with enterprise equipment to know if I'll need a license which I don't want to pay for or deal with.
I've looked at the dell z9000, dell force10 s4810p and the cisco n5k-c5548p which I understand needs a license so will probably be crossed out. I know that Mikrotik has some decently priced 10gb switches for $200\~ that has 8 sfp+ ports, so that's a last option I suppose.
Does anyone know anything about the z9000 or the s4810p? Any recommendations for other cheap enterprise 10gb switches? I liked that the dell units also had some ports for 40gb but the 10gb is more realistic for now. I also like dell networking in general.