{"id":728,"date":"2019-09-01T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T17:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2019-09-01T14:29:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T17:59:32","slug":"core-network-upgrade-completed-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Core Network Upgrade: Completed &#8211; Almost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m just about finished my core network upgrade that I started, really, last winter. Here&#8217;s what has transpired since Christmas (links to posts, etc. in line):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Santa bought me a TP-Link&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tp-link.com\/us\/business-networking\/easy-smart-switch\/tl-sg1024de\/\">TL-SG1024DE<\/a>. It gave me the VLANs I was looking for but it didn&#8217;t give me everything I was looking for but it worked for now.<\/li><li>The old SonicWall TZ205W was getting a little long in the tooth and I <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=652\">replaced<\/a> it with a pfSense box.<\/li><li>The Netgear\/D-Link access points being manually configured bugged me so I <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=657\">bought<\/a> a Ubiquiti &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ui.com\/unifi\/unifi-ap-ac-lite\/\">UniFi AC AP Lite<\/a>. <\/li><li>Since the TP-Link switch wasn&#8217;t doing it for me and I liked the Ubiquiti gear so much  I <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=664\">replaced<\/a> it with a &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ui.com\/unifi-switching\/unifi-switch-2448\/\">Ubiquiti Switch 24<\/a>.<\/li><li>I <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=687\">hated<\/a> the wire rack I was using for the network and server gear so I <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=700\">replaced<\/a> it with a homemade one.<\/li><li>Three NASes were too much even for a geek like me and they needed an upgrade. So three of the NASes, one with an external hardware eSATA disk enclosure, were <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=707\">replaced<\/a> with a Supermicro Server with FreeNAS.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190901_144103-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-730\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190901_144103-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190901_144103-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190901_144103.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">So, what&#8217;s next? There are three empty drive bays in the FreeNAS box. I will eventually be setting up a RAIDZ pool for my ESXi NFS shares. And, of course, there are the two Quanta S98J QSSC 1U rackmount server cases. I need another HBA, external cables, and drives to make them useful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m just about finished my core network upgrade that I started, really, last winter. Here&#8217;s what has transpired since Christmas (links to posts, etc. in line): Santa bought me a TP-Link&nbsp;TL-SG1024DE. It gave me the VLANs I was looking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=728\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}