Hi folks,
Just bought a new house, and I'm in the process of planning out the home office set up. A lot of it will likely be overkill.
My plan is to have 2 racks in the basement furnace room to house all of the equipment and infrastructure. One will be a 6U rack to house the patch panel and hard infrastructure, and the other will be a 25U rack on wheels to house most of the equipment.
I'm going to be running Cat6A cabling throughout the house into the areas that need it. I'll run the cables up into the attic, and then thread them down into the walls. Several of these will be used for PoE-powered IP cameras (5) and WiFi APs (2).
1GbE will be fine for most of the devices. However, I'd like to have the following on 10GbE:
1) pfSense router
2) NAS
3) VMware lab
4) Thin-client desktop in upstairs office
I would use SFP+ and fibre connections between all of these.
1. I've been looking at several switches, but I think the Dell X1052P would probably fit my needs best. But since I have the rack space, I'm open to using several switches. Any suggestions, or am I good with my current choice?
2. Any ideas for WiFi APs? My current choice is the Ubiquiti UniFi AC Pros, 1 upstairs, and 1 in the basement.
3. For the pfSense router, would a SUPERMICRO SYS-5018A-MLTN4 1U with an Intel X520 SFP+ card be sufficient to support a 10GbE network?
4. For the thin-client desktop, I was planning to run an OM3 cable through the walls, and terminate them at a keystone jack at both ends. Then, I'd run another shorter OM3 patch cable into SFP+ connectors into the 10GbE switch, and an Intel X520 card in the desktop. Does this make sense, or is there a better option?
Any and all other suggestions would be helpful. I'm trying to do this as cheaply as possible, so anything I can frankenstein from eBay is always great!
Just bought a new house, and I'm in the process of planning out the home office set up. A lot of it will likely be overkill.
My plan is to have 2 racks in the basement furnace room to house all of the equipment and infrastructure. One will be a 6U rack to house the patch panel and hard infrastructure, and the other will be a 25U rack on wheels to house most of the equipment.
I'm going to be running Cat6A cabling throughout the house into the areas that need it. I'll run the cables up into the attic, and then thread them down into the walls. Several of these will be used for PoE-powered IP cameras (5) and WiFi APs (2).
1GbE will be fine for most of the devices. However, I'd like to have the following on 10GbE:
1) pfSense router
2) NAS
3) VMware lab
4) Thin-client desktop in upstairs office
I would use SFP+ and fibre connections between all of these.
1. I've been looking at several switches, but I think the Dell X1052P would probably fit my needs best. But since I have the rack space, I'm open to using several switches. Any suggestions, or am I good with my current choice?
2. Any ideas for WiFi APs? My current choice is the Ubiquiti UniFi AC Pros, 1 upstairs, and 1 in the basement.
3. For the pfSense router, would a SUPERMICRO SYS-5018A-MLTN4 1U with an Intel X520 SFP+ card be sufficient to support a 10GbE network?
4. For the thin-client desktop, I was planning to run an OM3 cable through the walls, and terminate them at a keystone jack at both ends. Then, I'd run another shorter OM3 patch cable into SFP+ connectors into the 10GbE switch, and an Intel X520 card in the desktop. Does this make sense, or is there a better option?
Any and all other suggestions would be helpful. I'm trying to do this as cheaply as possible, so anything I can frankenstein from eBay is always great!
