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Leapswitch New Server Shipment

leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran
edited October 2013 in Providers

Hey everyone,
After our last post with server photos got a tremendous response, here we go again.

Our new shipment contains -

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10 E3-v3 Supermicro servers with 16-32GB RAM

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2 CloudCoreRouters (for a big LEB client)

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6 SSDs and 10 SSD converters

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20 spare HDDs

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Some 4-8GB RAM sticks

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Dual colored patch cords for IPMI and Network

Servers -

SSD converters -

We will soon have a new OpenVZ and KVM offer alongwith IPv6 on these new servers.

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  • leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran
    edited October 2013

    It seems there is a photo limit per post. So remaining are here -

    Cloud Core Routers - (for a client)

    Servers, drives, RAM, patch cables -

  • Congrats for the new toys! :) But i'd suggest you to get rid of these cloud core routers. A customer of ours got one of these for testing and got easily knocked out by not very strong DDoS attacks. The router just locked up and rebooted when routing a DDoS.

  • leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran

    @rds100 said:
    Congrats for the new toys! :) But i'd suggest you to get rid of these cloud core routers. A customer of ours got one of these for testing and got easily knocked out by not very strong DDoS attacks. The router just locked up and rebooted when routing a DDoS.

    Thank you. How big a DDOS attack ?

  • @leapswitch it was less than 500Mbps, but high PPS (small packets).

  • leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran

    @rds100 said:
    leapswitch it was less than 500Mbps, but high PPS (small packets).

    I see. I will pass this on to the client who ordered them.

  • pics are cool, maybe post some actual server pics?

  • Agreed, I'd like to see the servers as well.

  • @rds100 said:
    Congrats for the new toys! :) But i'd suggest you to get rid of these cloud core routers. A customer of ours got one of these for testing and got easily knocked out by not very strong DDoS attacks. The router just locked up and rebooted when routing a DDoS.

    Cloud Core is MicroTik, right? I've heard nothing but good stuff about that. Those routers can supposedly handle millions of PPS.

  • prometeusprometeus Member, Host Rep

    It seems like I know those Mikrotik :-)

  • leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran

    @prometeus said:
    It seems like I know those Mikrotik :-)

    :D

  • i actually installed mikrotik on a thinclient, but cause i was renovating the house i never got the chance to try it out after i installed it..

  • @mpkossen said:
    Cloud Core is MicroTik, right? I've heard nothing but good stuff about that. Those routers can supposedly handle millions of PPS.

    Yes, it's Mikrotik. Maybe it was a software issue, this was shortly after the CloudCore Router was released. Maybe they have fixed the bugs after that. But the first impressions were very bad - judged by what our customer experienced.

  • prometeusprometeus Member, Host Rep

    @rds100 said:
    Yes, it's Mikrotik. Maybe it was a software issue, this was shortly after the CloudCore Router was released. Maybe they have fixed the bugs after that. But the first impressions were very bad - judged by what our customer experienced.

    As far I know they should have fixed several bugs after the CCR were released, or at least I hope so :-)

  • leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran

    @rds100 said:

    @prometeus said:
    As far I know they should have fixed several bugs after the CCR were released, or at least I hope so :-)

    I have recently done some extensive reading about the CCRs. When they were released, RouterOS was at 6.0beta/RC and now it is at 6.4 which is 4 minor revisions. A lot of changes have happened since the launch. However, new CCRs still ship with RouterOS 6.0 and they come with a label asking you to upgrade before using.

  • @prometeus yes, possibly it's been fixed since then. I am still not impressed with the 12 x 1G ports though. It's 2013, they should have added at least 1-2 10G ports.

  • leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran

    @rds100 said:
    prometeus yes, possibly it's been fixed since then. I am still not impressed with the 12 x 1G ports though. It's 2013, they should have added at least 1-2 10G ports.

    You have 4 x SFP for 10G , and some versions come with 10G ports, I think.

  • @leapswitch the 4 SFPs are for 1G optic ports i think. I don't see any mention of 10G ports on their webpage.

  • prometeusprometeus Member, Host Rep

    @rds100 said:
    prometeus yes, possibly it's been fixed since then. I am still not impressed with the 12 x 1G ports though. It's 2013, they should have added at least 1-2 10G ports.

    they just did it:

    Cloud Core Router 1036-8G-2S+ with two 10Gbit SFP+

    Anyway 10G ports need more pps power

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  • rds100rds100 Member
    edited October 2013

    @prometeus hmm where is this model? I couldn't see it on www.cloudcorerouter.com

    edit: oh, i found it - on www.mikrotik.com

    They should still consider using some ASICs. A CPU can only handle so many pps, even with 36 cores.

  • leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran

    @rds100 said:
    prometeus hmm where is this model? I couldn't see it on www.cloudcorerouter.com

    edit: oh, i found it - on www.mikrotik.com

    They should still consider using some ASICs. A CPU can only handle so many pps, even with 36 cores.

    BGP currently runs only on 1 core. So, one core will be nearly always at high (80-100% usage). RouterOS 7 plans to change that with multi-core BGP processing.

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  • prometeusprometeus Member, Host Rep

    @rds100
    I consider them as a flexible alternative to a software only router, when the bps to route are limited.
    BTW for cd lan I'm touch with Juniper to get a couple of MX480 :-D

  • @prometeus MX480 - that's one damn expensive beast :) Btw i heard there is some new "budget" Juniper model - MX104, somehow better than the MX80. But nobody has seen it yet or knows when it can be delivered.

  • WilliamWilliam Member
    edited October 2013

    :) Better take some S25P, some optics and a few SMs (8x 1TB, 144GB Ram each :p)

    @rds100: I can get the MX104 in Austria already (via Nextlayer.at) - They say it's much better than the MX80 (Port wise also) but pricing isn't stable yet... We might experiment some with 2 MX240 next year to see what they can really do :)



  • @William i'm hoping that the arrival of the MX104 will make the price of the MX80 more reasonable, then i will get some for playing :) If they change their stupid policy of charging for everything i mean - $5000 for "BGP license" ?! WTF?

  • WilliamWilliam Member
    edited October 2013

    Heres also some SuperMicro "Micro"cloud pictures - Neat, Sixcore E5-26XX and up to 128GB (32GBx4) and 8TB (4TBx2) in 8x25x2.5cm each :D

    http://imgur.com/a/uuLnV

    @rds100 sadly not, license pricing stays exactly the same (same licenses in fact, as usual on JunOS) :(

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran
    edited October 2013

    Yep, microclouds are awesome, we run iwstack out of them and for this usage are even better because the no disk part :)
    Well, not actually microcloud, but multi bladed TWIN-FATs, but the idea is similar. Even atoms are in similar wrapping :)
    We do use real MCs too, some of the SSD offers are there.

  • @William <3 the haribo's :P

  • @William said:
    Heres also some SuperMicro "Micro"cloud pictures - Neat, Sixcore E5-26XX and up to 128GB (32GBx4) and 8TB (4TBx2) in 8x25x2.5cm each :D

    Curious how much does a complete system like this cost?

  • Awmusic12635Awmusic12635 Member, Host Rep

    @earl $7

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