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Although the camera's themselves only need 100mb, my 4800G and cat5e are 1gb so I'm running 1gb capable lines to the attic but attaching to a 100mb device. I plan to have additional cat5e or pairs to support 1gb devices should the need arise in the future. Right now all I need is 2 POE 100mb...

Appreciate all the feedback. I definitely plan on running extra cable to the attic for future needs. I was really debating on pulling up multiple cat5e's or going with a single 25 pair trunk. I already exposed the wall where needed, drilled 7/8 holes through beams/headers and ran a single...

Couple of questions. I'm running Cat5e to the attic to support a couple of IP cameras which will be POE and mounted under the eave of the roof. The camera's are do not require 1gb so my thoughts were to run a couple of Cat5e's and split the 4 pairs for 2 100mb connections. So each cable will...

Thanks for the guidance. I can see how I can setup a pivate vlan or DMZ between the IP cams and the zoneminder vm - but how do I plumb in the pfsense firewall for just the private VLAN? Do I need to add another 2 interfaces (in/out) on the pfsense box from the switch to a dedicated IP cam...

I'm either going to pick up a 3com poe switch with 10g support or a planet without. I certainly don't need 10g but would be fun to setup. I'm leading towards the planet with it's advanced POE features like scheduled power recycle and power windows.

Oops not my intention. 10G only for camera traffic to esx host. That line should be on a regular port. Otherwise am I planning correctly? Thanks

Below is how I am envisioning setting up pfsense as a dedicated box. Am I missing any key concepts? Is pfsense in the right spot in the network? Thanks

Appreciate all the feedback. Patrick it looks like the review you did above in you post would be great but was hoping to find something for around $150 all in (maybe that's not possible). My internet bandwidth is not crazy - we stream some movies from prime/hulu/netflix but only on one or two...

Thanks for the reply. How does that R210 compare to an Atom 1U server in power and fan sound? I already have 2 servers in the rack - 1 Dell R710 (running my backups) and 1 Supermicro running vmware. I'm looking for something with low noise, reliable and ideally low power but I would sacrifice...

I'm a novice slowly building out some equipment in my house and would like to add some security for my network. I have a couple of VM's accessible over the internet one of which is owncloud that I'd like to protect/harden. Is pfsense the way to go? I read about sophos as well and really not...

Does anyone have experience with Planet POE switches - specifically for IP cameras? I'm finally getting around to building out my video surveillance setup and am looking for a POE switch that I can use for create a separate VLAN for the camera traffic. I like the scheduled power cycle...

Thanks for this writeup on zenphoto. I agree on Piwgo - although it is real easy to use. Since my use is personal and not on the internet I ended up going with Lychee and use Lycheesync to keep lychee in sync with my and my wifes owncloud picture directories. Although there is no...

thanks all - I haven't picked out my camera's yet. So many options... I was hoping to get away with a managed POE switch for under $100 but I guess we'll see based on which camera. I'll report back once I sort that out. I didn't realize the different POE wattage standards, thank you for...

Hi - I'm starting to plan my video surveillance setup and will need a POE switch. I would like at least a 16port gigabit switch and prefer a 1U Rack mount to go into my rack. I know there are POE injectors but I'd prefer something a little more feature rich that is managed. Any thoughts on...

I found my answer... Looks like once everything is shutdown orderly the cyberpower bbu will kill power to the server.

Hi All - I've had a couple of power outages which crashed my Supermicro server running ESXi so I decided to add a cyberpower battery backup. The cyberpower software will allow me to initiate an orderly shutdown of all VM's if the power goes out. Hopefully there's a delay I can configure in the...

Thanks for the reply. How would I create an alert if I lost a physical HDD? I guess no predictive analysis can be done? Is there a better HBA I can use that would provide more visibility to the HDD in raid group? Thank you

I added the LSI vib and it looks like I have some storage information under ESXi. Still cannot access drive SMART data from esxcli. Can someone help me interrupter what I'm looking at? On one HBA I have 6 4TB drives in Raid10 and 2 SSD drives Raid1. Second HBA I have 2 SSD's in Raid1. Thank you.

Hi all - I still haven't been successful in getting visibility to the physical drives for error reporting. I'm at a loss with this. Without drive monitoring I'm very hesitant to go all in with picutres, music, personal files, etc. Anyone have any ideas on how I can overcome this? Would...

I installed 7.4 OMSA VIB and the Windows Admin client on my PC. I'm still not seeing the drives through the H310's. Under OMSA "Storage" I get "No controllers detected". If I go to OMSA "Main System Chasis" under "slots" I see both my HBA's listed as "MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon]". Any idea...