 So honestly, the last thing I wanna do is be here in the office on a Saturday. Agreed. I mean, Jake and- no, Jake and Anthony, they're stoked. Oh, yeah. They're super thrilled. Yeah. They love it. But me, I wish I didn't have to be in here on a Saturday. But the problem is we have a whack ton of stuff to do to fix our server room and our network. And the only time you can really do this sort of stuff is when people aren't using it. Which means you have to come in on the weekend. So we need to change a bunch of our- VLANs, the Sites, Wi-Fi, the Sources, the Database, Mitchell, Waves, NG, Sys, and Render, VLANs, the Sites, Wi-Fi, the Sources, the Database, Sources, and Software. We've gotta- we've gotta- A lot to do. Oh, man. Oh, I even found out something else we get to do, you guys. Telus came in for the site survey, and we get to redo all of this networking so that they can get access to this to slide it out. Oh, you're joking, right? No, no, I'm not. That was bad design. It's the comb over. The best idea. With GlassWire, you can instantly see your current and past network activity, detect malware, and block badly behaving apps on your PC or Android device. Use offer code Linus to get 25% off GlassWire at the link below. I think step number one is to do what is quite literally one of the scariest things that I do around here. Oh, turn the servers off? Turn the servers off. Oh, this is going well already. Oh. Oh, boy. So this is our new router. It handles 10 gig. It'll be running PF sense, which means that we'll have much lower level access to handling all of our networking tasks. So if something goes wrong, we don't have to be like, well, OK, is it a firmware issue? We can go ahead and be like, yeah, it's a configuration issue. We can just edit this file and off we go. The reason we need it, though, is we're getting faster internet. So it's five gig to the broader internet, but it's 10 gig to anything at the Vancouver Internet Exchange. So that's like basically anything that matters. So AWS, Google. So our Google backup is going to be super fast now. Oh, yeah. OK, bring that down. Get this thing fired up. It's not even that heavy. I carried this thing. It's awkward. And it's digging into my knee. It's not even that awkward. OK, there. Hold on. I just had to lift it up a little bit. Now it's digging into my thigh muscle. Oh, tasty. I have been trying to figure out for far longer than would not be embarrassing a good way to hold this stupid cabinet door open while I'm sliding servers in and out of it. Optane. I mean, I'm sure if we wedged an Optane module in there, it'd be perfectly fine. So the problem is that it kind of doesn't open all the way easily. So when you're trying to slide stuff out, it gets caught here and here. So here's my idea. I'm going to open it up as much as I can. Then I'm going to drill a hole in the side of this keyboard tray. It's going the wrong way. Dang it. Then I'm going to take the Allen key that I always have to have here anyway so that I can pull servers out. And I'm going to jam it right in there. Yes. Oh crap. Well, now this can't lift up and that's also in the way. Here's the thing. Johnny, who originally set up all of our VLANs and all of our routing and all of that stuff, has sort of retired from the IT consultancy business. So we're going to be trying to piece together everything that he did on our Ubiquiti gear and then reassemble it on our PF Sense box from Supermicro here. In theory, this is just going to be a simple one-to-one instant swap-a-rooney. It's not going to be. Wow. Thanks, Jake. What a downer. You still can't find it? No, it's like I looked everywhere over there. In the workshop too? I looked through the workshop. Did you call Alex? Man, the Hangouts ring is like, feels pretentious. Hey, sorry to bug you. The blaster nozzle from the compressor is missing. Oh, he's calling. Where would we find that? Oh, I think so. Yes, the air fittings tray is completely empty. There was two things in there. I took them already. Oh, OK. No, there were two things in here. But that would not help us. Somebody put it in a dumb spot. So this is the router. Right here. What? Took me literally less than 10 seconds to find it. Yeah, OK. It was sitting on the chair that you refused to pick the things up off of last weekend. I took the doofus train going anywhere. Going to the server room. What server do you want first, Jake? I literally don't care. I'm going to label things better than I did last time. I should go put this out. Oh, is it raining? Oh, actually, 101 would be good, but it's kind of far away. It's already dusty as all heck in there. Your mom's already dusty as all heck in there. You know what? How does it feel? It smells nasty. It smells like nothing. Are you sure? Are you sure it smells nice? It's you. Oh. I haven't showered in three months. That's quite a thick boy. Did you drop this thing? I know. That happened in shipping. Is that what you tell everybody? Whenever you drop something, like, yeah, that happened in shipping. Got it? You betcha. OK. That's uncouple. Why did we leave that there? Come on, go up. To put it on top. Yeah. Oh, my god. It's up so high. The server's minty, but it doesn't even need me. Come on. Oh. This, my friends, is the real reason we switched to solid state storage. So you can drop it and it doesn't break? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Eat a dick. There's another thing that we're doing today. And there's another reason we're taking all the servers out. People are careless and accidentally sign hardware out, particularly to Albion Server, because it's the top of the alphabet in our inventory system. People are all seeming like you. I think we'll be able to figure out a lot of it by just looking at it. Just look at Albion Server, then what's checked out to it. It's like, this doesn't have a Z270 board in it. Yeah, we're going to need. And an 8700K. Wireless headphones. We're going to need to look at it. We're going to need to look at it. Albion Server really wanted those Logitech G Pro headsets. Pretty closely. Oh, you might have been right. There's actually some headphones checked out to Albion Server. I don't think they're wireless, but tuned in-ear Pro. We got a GTX 1080. Is there a 1080 in there? Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so. And a monitor. This thing even has its own monitor, hey? Oh, yeah. Every single damn time, I forget how the lid comes off of this stupid server. Like, there's one screw back here. And I could have sworn that was the whole skadoodle. The gosh darn skadoodle there, bud. Hey. Wow, this is a, you think it just like, what if I break it? Is that a problem? I mean, oh, for real, wow. I'm just going to let you bask in that. How long did it take me to find the nozzle? I say that you finding the nozzle was kind of a fluke. Do you want to just go clean servers, or are you going to help me? No, I'm going to help you, because after they're cleaned, they all need to be audited. So I finally got an IP address, be able to access the PFSense box. This cable that we had for the test card is Garibaldio. Got another cable. It's fine. Yay, we're started. Yeah, we've got the Xeon D, 2.3 gigahertz, 16 threads, eight cores. We've got 32 gigs of RAM. I think I read somewhere that the bandwidth mattered or something, and I think those were the lowest capacity ECC DIMMs we had. It really. I don't know, dude. I say we just let it keep the RAM. Fine. I like whams. So we're only what, an hour and a half in? I actually don't know if we're going to have all of this done by Monday. I am finished auditing one server, and Anthony is copying config files. Oh, come on. Do I even care? Should I put the drive covers over the top? Does it matter? I just don't know if it matters. Jake, do these matter? They're probably good for vibration or something. Oh, they see they, that's exactly what they're for. Yeah. Oh, God. Oh, we just. We blew each other. Oh, no, that's unfortunate. At least one of these bays has an SSD in it, but I don't see any so far. No, no, no, no, no, no. I need. I don't even know the best way to do this. So signed out to this server are at least one, two, seven SSDs that are not in it. Also, I really hope it didn't matter that I changed the order of these. Probably not. Hopefully. Oh, I really hope not. How many combinations of 24 items are there? Seems like kind of a lot. It's probably fine. Wait, what am I doing? Why am I putting them back in? I have to scan them. Oh, OK. Oh, and they're jammed. Anthony, can I borrow your VGA cable and peripherals and stuff? Yeah. Dang it, Anthony, who screws in VGA? It's proper procedure to screw in VGA. Yeah, but like it's just a test bench. I love that servers don't sound like they're booting up. They sound like they're taking off. Yeah, it sounded like you turn on a vacuum cleaner. So this is bad. This has been taking far too long to boot. There was also that weird error with the LSI controller at the beginning or Avago or whoever owns that now. So all I can really do right now is like replug it and hope for the best here. This is really not a good scene. Please boot. Oh, oh, that's good. Wait, yes. Oh, oh, yes. That's good. Oh, that's all the drives. Oh, good. Holy crap. I don't know how that happened or how it got fixed, which is the very worst kind of fixed. Let's go ahead and shut this bad boy back down and go through it in the pile of audited and all good. Whoa. Yeah. Winning. This is taking a lot longer than we thought, hey? Well, look how easy that was to get off. This one's a little dirtier. Why is this one so dirty? Yeah, that's gross. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Ah, how's that teamwork? All right. I heard it makes the dream work. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I heard. Dreamworks? That's what I heard. That's a trademark. We can't say that. I don't think we can say that. So we still have, as you may or may not have noticed, a PCI Express 16x slot. You want to put another one in there? 40 gig? Oh. What are they? 100 gig? Those stupid... Are they 40 or 100? They're 100, technically. 100. That seems like a little out of our... I don't think our switch does 100 though. Did it work with the ethernet devices? Because you connect to an ethernet device over the InfiniBand as well? Oh yeah. Yeah. Sure. Fine. Let's do it. We actually have like six of those 40 gigabit ports on the... On the switch though? Yeah. On the down low. What? Uh... I don't know how this ended up in the baggie for it, but it's not the right size. What? Really? Did it come with a low profile bracket? I don't know. Well... Can we just zip tie life? Oh... People are gonna hate us. I dropped a bomb over here. I probably wouldn't come help me. Okay. I think this is the one that can technically do 40 gigabit, but also can't. Oh. Do you think those line up? Oh. They probably do. They're both Mellanox. Probably. Yeah. So we're just gonna take the stock bracket and then we're just gonna cut out the parts we don't need and zip tie the card to the other parts that we do still need. It's a good plan. Hahaha. We should throw that at Dennis and tell him it's a bug. How's this going, Anthony? I think this is about ready to go. Seriously? Basically, I just need to change the interface over so that it uses a VLAN. Okay. But once I change that over to the Office LAN, we should just be able to drop it in and it should basically just work. Should or will? Well... Did you set up all the DHCP servers? Yes. So this is another change we're making. We're putting the DHCP server back on our router. We're taking it off that VM that was running on one of the Windows servers. Which we technically already did. That was... Did we turn that off already? Oh, I did that a long time ago. I remember when our internet broke. The internet was broken for like a week. Turns out our router's date was set to 2016. That was a good year though. Yeah. This is Clover Server. And this was built long enough ago that 8 terabyte drives were like pretty deese. You say that like 8 terabyte drives aren't pretty deese still. You're gonna wish you never even thought of dust. Can you get this out of the way? Oh, whoa. There's a lot of hard drives on there. This whole bottom shelf is full of hard drives. Why did we use this rack? Well, because it's the lower one. Like that. Yeah, you like that? Don't spin the fan, Linus. Yeah, it's just a little. It's fine. Yeah. We should just do whole server room water cooler. DK actually has the proper stuff to do it. OK, looking good. All right. Why don't you roll the server for a change? OK, but if I drop all the hard drives, it's not my fault. Did you fart again? Yep. I think your lactose intolerant. Oh, yeah, I am. Oh, holy crap. It still smells like fart. I put the compressor in the middle so now we can walk wherever we want. All right. A little. We're heading to the. Move your foot. I only hear one thing at a time, Jake. Honest and speaking. Wait your turn. Now you don't hear nothing. So for the uninitiated, this is our water cooled video export machine. I won't really call it a server, even though it's in a two you rack mountable case, because it's very consumer hardware inside. The main issue with this one is that it's at the very bottom of the rack. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, yeah, the orange RAM. I forgot about that. These are my old drives from like my gaming ring. You're refurbished. They were refurbished when you refurbished force 120s that I bought like seven or eight years ago. Well, that's yeah, that's a lot better than I expected, given that. Oh, you know what? I forgot this case is filtered. Probably need to clean up. Not inside. So all that's left now is we're just going to blow out petabyte projects in the server room. We'll have that fan on and we're just going to blow the dust out into the warehouse. And good luck, everybody else. Rip, Anthony. Oh, watch out there, bud. Well, bud, we're getting attacked. Watch your toes there, bud. Are you ready for the full tute? We got a X540T2. Yep. E5-2620B4. That sounds about right. Two X400 128 gig SSDs, XL6Ds. Does that say triple redundant? It does. Oh, baby, a triple. And then Delta 1 should have 60 drives. Oh, I don't want to count. Jake, do you want to grab your screwdriver and then let's get this Edge Router Pro out of here. PF Sense actually has a really cool feature. What's it called? Carp failover or something like that? Something like that. So we're just rolling out one for now. But in the future, we can actually have them both connected and running. In the event that one does experience some kind of malfunction, we can just have it failover automatically. Like I think at most you drop like a handful of packets. It's no big deal. You say that like you don't like dropping packets, right, Linus? What? I don't even know what you're talking about. You don't like dropping packets? I'm just trying to get this work done. What if we have to drop packets to do it? Well, we're dropping a whole lot of packets right now. Wow, this is very poorly installed. I know. I f***ing hate it. So I just take it out then? No, because it's hardwired in at the back. Why is it? Just... Oh, I love security companies. The point is we're gonna move it. We're not gonna move it yet. But soon. All right, time to go get Big Bertha. Big Bertha? That's what your mom calls it. Wow. Hey Linus? Yeah? I got some bad news. What? I dropped it. What? No. Shut up. You didn't. No, you didn't. So this is our new main switch. Whoa. Uh... Whoa. Shut up. So it's got 48 10 gig RJ45 ports, and then this is delicious. It's got six more of these 40 gig QSFP plus ports or whatever. What's on the bottom? That's our edge router? At the bottom, that's our edge router. That goes. Let me take some photos of everything just so for whatever reason we have somewhat recollection. How about we just pull out everything we don't need? Pull out everything we don't need? I'm turning this router off. Okay, so there's our old router. And here, this is our first 10 gig switch. I remember how excited I was about this thing when I first got it. You ever cleaned it? Look at those dust bunnies. Yeah, I cleaned it once at least. So this is done. This is done. They're done. Anthony, what are our... Whoa, that's my screwdriver. What are our chances looking like here? Well, given everything I know about networking, this is not going to work. It'll never work. What? Why? Not the first time. Shut up. Given everything I know, all the experience I've ever had with networking gear. Fine. It's not going to work? Let me know when you want to try it or if you want to just throw it right in. And I'll set the interfaces and shut it down. All right. Thanks, Anthony. I don't want to take up the entire length of the rack if we don't have to. If we can ear mount it, I'd strongly prefer to do that. It doesn't have ear mounts. Well, if we can find another way. Ow. Oh, no. I think that hurt. Oh, God. You just dropped the switch too. Sorry, but it's really hard not to laugh. And now he's pretending like it doesn't hurt. It hurts a lot. It hurts a lot. I think you're just a whiny baby that pays my paycheck. I can't even see what I'm doing. Just there. You can't just unplug everything. Yes, I can. Ow. Oh, damn it. What the fuck? Who put this there? You did. No, I didn't. Anthony. What? Your stupid Amplify thing just hit me in the face. I don't know what I'm doing. Are you, am I able to pull this any further? You should just get a new rack. Do you want to come in for the additional weekend that it would take to swap racks? Okay, just pull this out. We should just pay somebody. We got the London look in our server rack. Why did you plug it in? It's on. Look at that. It's alive. We need to switch those fans around, hey? Which way are they going? They're going out this way. Oh crap, I remember that now. No, we can't flip those fans around. I thought that was the whole point. Yeah, just gentle. Gentle. Gentle. We don't have time for gentle. Jammed my hand in the thing. Okay, so Jake, you've got all the, All the wires now, right? Well, that orange WAN is still here. Okay, that's fine. We can leave that. I think. I've already pulled it out. What? Around the other side. Around the outside, around the outside. You look fine. Yeah, I feel fine. Everything's fine. Wow, we should really not run that on the inside of the rail. Wait, did we just unplug all the cameras? Wait a minute, what the hell? We unplugged all the cameras? Yeah, we unplugged all the cameras. Of course we did. Yeah, we can put the router here, but I want to move that stupid NVR somewhere else. Okay, so this is just an ethernet cable. We can replace this with, wait, where the hell was that plugged into? On the other side, other side. Far side, far side. It's gonna sag and look stupid. Put the screws in properly. I'm gonna put it on the top of the UPS for now. But there's a fan there. Yeah, I'm not gonna put it there. Put it on the top of the rack for now. Fine, I'll put it on the top. No, I need the top of the rack for organizing things. I'm gonna put it back there for now. So, Anthony figured out why we're not getting an IP. Anthony, you mean we figured out. Well, I figured out. He figured out we were not getting an IP. What do you mean you figured out? Well, I figured out why. I said, did you set it? I told you why. I asked if we needed a static IP. I didn't hear you. Okay, so, let's start plugging in devices here, shall we? Yeah. Hey-o. Hey. Okay, yeah. I need more energy from you, Linus. I'm dying. Trying to access that router so I can get the settings off of it so I can get our internet back up. Long story short, VLANs, they don't work when you plug it directly into a computer. Oh, I have a switch for you. Well, I have a switch here that I just plugged in. Oh yeah, that's the switch I was gonna give you. So Linus. Yeah. These are numbered the same. Like, should we be changing these to a different color cable or what if we just mark them with a Sharpie? I'm gonna just, oh, you just get all of them. This is actually a really good idea. Yes. Yeah, that's right. You like that? Wow, you suck, you know that? That's actually really irritating. I'm actually genuinely a little bit mad now. Yeah, you mark them yourself. No, you can't have it. Get one. Oh, damn it, I hot glued the lock on this door. No, you can't lock it. Don't even. Better back off. I've been watching lots of sword fighting shows. Do you see how they go for the shin? They go for the shin in the face. Oh my gosh, you didn't even get me. See, that's the thing. Is the word f**k really potty mouth? What are all these cables for? Nobody does that on the potty. Hey, nobody's a strong word. You can't do that. You can put cable ties. Cable ties? Zip ties. I've got a router. Yeah, zip ties too. No, you need a router. I don't think you understand. There's definitely too close. Is this better? Whatever you're doing. Oh, my ankle. Is this minimum focus distance good enough? Yeah. I need zip ties. Hey, I would really like for this to not fall down and smoke me in the head. That would be three for three though. All right. Yeah, we really need him to drop a third thing on his head. Oh. Why is there a monitor stand in here? Because it's the stand for that monitor. Oh my God. Well, where else would I put it? I don't know, like long-term storage for this thing that's gonna be long-term stored. So you went to UBC for science, general sciences. So you were just burning money. This sounds very unlike you to just burn money like that. Clearly I figured it out at some point. Yeah, you did. You definitely did. Why didn't you go into business? Because I didn't listen to my uncle who hopefully will not watch this video because I will get the most epic told you so. I just thought I was bleeding, but there's some ass. Hey, Jake, do you remember when you were mining in the server room and you were gonna monitor the power usage with this and you were gonna pay me back? Yeah. Yeah, remember how that didn't happen? Hey, David, move. Epic power cord. That's a nice sheet thick. It's like 12 gauge. It's a thick boy. Like that Linus guy. What is all this? Yeah, here. I don't know, people just bring in a power cord or whatever. They don't take it out. I know I did that a bunch. Give a time of thought to whether there's one. Wait, weren't you never supposed to unplug that thing? Jeez. I'm just sheer amount of extra wiring in here is ludicrous. I think that we're ready to go. You think? I'm reasonably sure we're ready to go. Which isn't even powered on yet. Do you have the ear screws? Or the ear screws here? You don't need them, it's fine. It was a trap. Linus, what are all these screwdrivers? What screwdrivers? What are you talking about? There's like four screwdrivers just sitting in the bottom here. What, like under the do? Yeah, under the do. What? The kid can do work. I mean, he works real hard at it for like putting tape on the ground. I really hope it just kind of lights up and works. That'd be super cool. It's gonna be really unfortunate if it doesn't. Yeah. I actually don't know what we will do. We will learn command line switch configuration. What's beeping? Oh, the UPS is having a hissy fit. Turn unit off, no. Wait, what is going on? No, no. This is kind of moment of truth. It's in, it's on. Wait, here, let me unplug this and plug it back in again. What? No, no, no, no, no. Just like, let's just find out if it works, all right? Oh, okay. Well, I already did that. So I hope that didn't break anything. Wait, I'm plugged into 15 upstairs, I think. Is that plugged in? I don't know. You tell me. You're the one who fed me all the cables from the front, supposedly. How about we, ah, there's a 15 right there. Plugged in, cool. All right, I'm gonna go upstairs and see if we have internet. Oh. That was too much impact from my testicles. So here it is, the moment of truth. It's not working. FreshBooks is the small business accounting software that's custom built for how you wanna work. It's a simple way, whether you're a small business owner or a freelancer, to be more productive, more organized, and to get paid faster. You can create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds. You can set up online payments with just a couple of clicks to get paid up to four days faster. 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