Shortly after a wonderful vacation in Paris – despite it being so hot (35C plus) that the trees were dropping leaves like it was fall – one of the ports on my 10-month-old Unifi USW Aggregation switch failed. It was carrying all the traffic from one of my Proxmox hosts and where the the connection to the core network connected to the Netgate 6100 firewall. This meant a whole lot of reconfiguration in a little bit of a rush. And the VMs really “missed” 10 GbE speed.
The Ubiquiti RMA process was pretty quick. Within five minutes of putting my RMA request in noting that it was a failed port (port failure was one of the options) my RMA was approved. The only downside is you have to pay, I guess because I have the standard warranty, shipping back to Ubiquiti. So, with the shipping to Ontario, time for them to verify receipt, and sending it back (no charge), it took a couple of weeks. Of course, there were acouple of weekends were involved.
While I was waiting one of the 3TB drives in my DS216+II which I use for my second level backup. I’ve had the DS216+II for almost exactly 8 years, started failing with over 90,000 hours on it. I previously had used it my FreeNAS server. Obviously, that was not under warranty. Two days after getting my replacement (only CDN$90) the drive failed. Or, “crashed” according to DSM. As always, drive replacement with DSM is seamless.
Anyway, today I got around to replacing the USW Aggregation. A little less rushed this time as I woke up at 6:00 AM so as to not annoy my lovely wife. One thing that I realized I have to do is to label the DAC cables so I am now looking for a good labeller.
About Mike Pelley
Let’s see… A little about me…
I’ve been around information technology since 1983 with computers such as DEC Rainbows (weird machine – the standard DOS couldn’t format its own floppy disks – remember them? – and I had to format them on a friend’s IBM PC) to Radio Shack TRS-80 to Apple ][e and Apple //c in the beginning.
I have programmed in 8-bit assembly language on 6502, FORTRAN and COBOL on IBM System/370 (and I still hate JCL), VAX BASIC and COBOL (and a weird and massive WordPerfect 4.0 macro) on DEC VMS (Alpha), C/C++ on Digital Unix (ALPHA), and C/C++, Perl (it may be powerful but I still hate it), PHP on Linux (Red Hat, Centos, Ubuntu, etc.).
I have work with databases such as Digital RDB (later to become Oracle RDB), Oracle DBMS, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL on VAX, Alpha, Sun and Intel.
Check out my professional profile and connect with me on LinkedIn. See http://lnkd.in/nhTRZe
I still think that Digital created some of the best ideas in the world: VAX clustering, DSSI disks (forerunner to SCSI) and the Alpha processor (first commercial 64-bit processor – Red Hat screamed on an Alpha!). DEC just could not seem to be able to give air conditioners away to someone lost in the Sahara Desert!
VMware is one of the best ways to get the most out of an x64 server. And I have tried Oracle VM, Virtual Box and Microsoft Virtual Server.
Outside of that I am a huge military history buff starting in the early 20th century. I love Ford Mustangs (my ’87 Mustang GT was awesome) and if I had the money I would have a Porsche 928S4. If I had a lot of money I would have a Porsche 911 Turbo.
I also play too much AmrA 3 Exile mod. Over 5,000+ hours...
I have a wonderful son, Cameron. I have a long suffering (Do you really need all that computer junk?) wife, Paula. I live in Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador.
