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We use Zabbix and Grafana. Not Nagios. But similar goals.

I found this while looking at this 1.1.1.1 ATT/cloudflare dns thing.
https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/network-coverage/
Not exactly what you want i dont think but interesting.

@matteo-nunziati said in virtualize all the things... ?:

@stacksofplates said in virtualize all the things... ?:

@bj said in virtualize all the things... ?:

@jaredbusch said in virtualize all the things... ?:

Then Manage it from your Fedora desktop

I think I'd rather not install an entire desktop to manage VMs. That seems like taking a step in the wrong direction to me.

You don't have to. You can manage from cli only. And if you just want virt-manager just have a VM on the host that you can X11 forward from.

If you have failover/replica/ha you can consider to use a vm to control the hypervisor

You can do it even without that. Single hosts are easy, and for the amount of resources it uses, you can just have one on each host as a fail safe. But as long as a single host is up you can control them all from a single Virt-Manager VM.

https://i.imgur.com/oaCvbKP.png

No thanks.

@bj would help to know more about your setup...

1.) How many closets?
2.) How many ports per each of those closets
3.) What are your requirements for fabric bandwidth?
4.) How many clients access the pool of how many servers for HA?

I like Juniper and Extreme Networks for mid range applications. You can get refurbished Brocade Fast Iron in the same price range. But based on your feedback I can share some specific models.

@Mike-Davis said in Hardware sources:

@scottalanmiller said in Hardware sources:

So you let a salesman determine the best fit for your needs? If you aren't doing any research, how do you know he didn't just screw your customer by selling the thing that earns him the most margin (CDW is famous for how extremely they do this.) And what's your role here? If the customer wanted to engage predatory salesman directly, they could. No need for an IT person.

My role was picking the specs for the laptop. When he quotes me the laptop and case, I can take a look and spot check the price if I want. After he finds a case, I can take a look at it and see what kind of reviews it has.

How would you handle a request like that from a customer?

If I'm only asked to get specs and then pass it back to the customer and my job is done and they ask me to forward on to a salesguy and to step away, then sure, I'd do that. That's like asking your real estate agent how many square feet you need and then telling the agent to not be involved and let the seller's agent sell whatever they can get away with.

But if I'm in the IT role and responsible as the buyer's agent (IT role = buyer's agent for businesses) then it's my responsibility to know what is out there and do the research. Sure, there are cases where a single item is so trivially cheap and commodity that it's not worth the time to research - but normally in those cases you just go to Amazon, at least to see prices. Someone like CDW is a VAR and tack on a lot of cost (normally hidden in upsales) associated with using them. Like they don't give good discounts, sell based on kickbacks and behind the scenes promotions and such - CDW is the most well known in the industry for this as their "recommended" solutions change week to week based on the current vendor promotions. They don't recommend what is good for you, but what is good for them.

If customers don't want a buyer's representative, that's fine and up to them. But is it clear to them that they are being sold stuff by a sales person directly without any buyer's agent anywhere in the stream? It's like going to a real estate sale, telling the seller you'll buy anything they recommend with the adequate square footage. Yes, you'll get a house quickly, but it'll be the one for which the seller gets the highest commission and not one based around the buyer's needs.

Just wanted to add @bj to this thread that I think a $100-ish Cloud Router from Mikrotik would blow most hardware away, including Ubiquiti, on pure performance. With the $50 and under models you are still getting 1 million PPS. The new cloud router series really has a crazy amount of power.

This still coming from a pure PPS (packets per second) point of view.

I think the cheapest cloud router has 12 to 16 cores That would only count for the core routers I am more familiar with (12 to 24 now) in the $500 range.

Very poor marketing in the states but very popular with western country WISPS.