FINALLY rack mounted my Ubiquiti UniFi gear
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.พ. 2023
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Big fan of your channel Samir. Hope all's well - looking forward to more videos this new year!
That setup is beautiful Samir, I've been waiting to see what it would look like. Thanks for sharing the video.
Thanks again for checking out the channel!
very well done and much cleaner and probably easier for you to trace things down now if anything becomes an issue. Thanks for sharing.
Great job, enjoyed your video, straight forward and to the point. Keep them coming!
Thanks for the support!
Great video man, I'm so happy for you that finally have the network rack mounted. It's so cool when you see the rack mountable devices there with their patch cables and patch panels. I'll follow your advice and I'll add some RGB to my server rack 😁
Haha. Gotta use RGB for the performance gain!
Super clean on the front, nice work!
Thank you Samir, I always enjoy your videos. It feels like we are at the same experience level so I can always relate to what you are doing. I still rock the punch down style patch panel in my rack 😂
Haha. That phase of my life treated me well while it lasted but if I was gonna change everything might as well switch to the keystone panels lol
Great video man, very clean!
Thanks! Long overdue lol
Great video as usual!!
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for checking it out!
nice project, thanks for sharing!
Looks great! I especially like the short patch cables. The planning and arrangement of devices was well thought out. A suggestion for the cable management behind the rack, it is inexpensive to pick up a roll of Velcro tape at Harbor Freight and cut the tape as needed and comb back the cables and add Velcro approximately every 12 inches. In a home lab the Velcro makes upgrades and modifications easy. Great looking setup. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the suggestion. I do already have Velcro at home which I will cut up to further organize the cables in the back! I just have another project where I need to run a few more cables there so I’m just waiting for that before I clean up the back of the rack!
Thank god, it was bothering me that it wasn’t. Looks great!
Haha! Took a while but got there eventually
Great setup Samir.
should do the videos on your homelab stuff..love the videos. Don't give up! It's hard to keep uploading. Cheers
Thanks for the demo and info, time for some rackstuds
Thanks for checking out the video. Will definitely use rack studs the next time I have to make changes.
Clean job sir!
Thank you so much!
I've been watching a lot of these cabling setup (graduated from watching gaming setups 🙂) and I'm about to fix the cabling at my brother's small business network. This is nice work. I would personally opt for a floor standing rack with castors for easier access to the back.
With the current setup, I would use Velcro (hook and loop) to tidy up the cable at the back a little and get a cover at least on one side panel.
Great project.
The RGB speed boost is classic, and a must.
Haha. I know right?
Hey, overall...great work! I liked watching this video very much! Cheers!
Thank you.
Great setup, nice work getting all that organized. While I have a bit less mess than what you started with, I really want to put together a small rack to get things looking proper but as you mentioned, taking the whole network offline for hours and hours creates some family difficulties. 😂
For sure! I had been putting it off for way too long lol
Amazing video!!
Great video as always, Samir… it’s been a while since you posted, so I hope you’re doing well. I look forward to a future video. Happy New Year!
The lights ++Good
Well done Samir
Oooh, that's satisfying.
Haha!
Call you ISP and ask for a SFP+ ONT, it will plug right into your Unify gear. I hear lots of fiber ISPs are now supplying them, or at least letting you know which ones you can buy yourself and use so you can ditch your ISPs box. Nothing cooler than having your fiber from the street plug right into your own equipment.
AT&T will not do it
@@clsanchez77 Unfortunately they also won't let you use 10. subnets lol
@@clsanchez77a lot of the smaller fiber companies will do it
I put so many of this "cage-something" and no problem at all
Channel Lock pliers work great for inserting cage nuts.
Thanks for the tip!
Rackstuds. The answer is rackstuds. That is all. Possibly the greatest invention of the modern age.
Lol something I will definitely look into for future rack mounting adventures.
@@TechTalkwithSamir dont look into! Get! 100% rack studs are the way to go! No more hurting your hands haha!
Haha. I’m convinced!
Exactly what I thought as he started racking the patch panels, oh if only someone had told him about Rackstuds!
After punching cables, did sleeve pieces find their way into your servers? Love the video and the lighting!!!
Haha good point. I should open the servers and check.
Great video! That rack isn't going anywhere haha
Haha. Thanks. I wasn’t taking any chances with the lag screws lol
Id like to request a complete walk through of your network please? TIA I hope.
I know you said you didn't want to stress the wall rack putting your UPS in the rack but with those 4" lag screws you put in, you could fill the whole rack with UPS's lol
It looks great but why not mount the ups in the rack since it looks like a 2U rack mountable UPS?
The depth of the UPS is longer than the rack. And also since it’s super heavy, I don’t want to risk putting it on a wall mountable rack lol
Outstanding video!! I am building a home and looking to use Unify systems. Rookie question - why do you use patch panels, I thought the internet from your ISP goes directly into the switches or UDM-SE.
Thanks for checking out the video. The patch panels give me flexibility for better cable organization if I need to move things around or connect different things to different devices. I could have just terminated all cables to RJ-45 ends but it would have been a lot messier and harder to keep track of the cabling. So in short, it’s more for the aesthetics than functionality.
@@TechTalkwithSamir Definitely looks clean!! If I am going to have POE cameras, can they plug into the Dream SE without having the Aggregator? I was thinking of the Dream SE and the 24 port switch
@dave0813 yup the UDM SE’s ports have POE. But make sure the POE standard for the cameras match the ports. Not all ports on the UDM SE has the same POE standards.
@@TechTalkwithSamir Thanks for the advice!
love your videos and advice and subbed. please help I need a home network and thinking of going with a wall mounted rack So for a new home network would you recommend and DMPSE ( instead of the lozenge one, and future proof for security cameras too, getting ri di nesst and blink ) and the SA10GB switch and some in-wall access points as I cant have ceiling ones. Do you need anything else? would you put your synology and battery back up in the rack with all this next to where the internet comes in the wall? Please reply thanks. WOW YOU certainly upgrades from 2 years ago and yes the rack is awesome too.
Thanks for checking out the channel.
It depends on your particular usage case. UDM SE is great but can be an overkill for a lot of people. But if you plan on getting UniFi cameras down the road then it’s definitely something worth investing in. As for the 10Gb switch, it depends on how many 10Gb devices you will have. If you only have two devices, the SFP ports on the UDMSE will be enough since you can configure both of them to be LAN ports. But if you have more than 2 then yes definitely get a 10 gig switch. Another factor is whether your 10 gig devices have SFP+ ports or RJ45. I only recommend the switch aggregation if you exclusively have SFP+ devices. Otherwise it’s better to get a switch made for RJ45 ports.
As for where to put the Synology, it once again depends on your setup. I personally like to have it close to my network gear because I can put everything on the same battery rather than having multiple batteries.
Thanks. I decided to have a rack in the office and do it all from there. . I feel a big tip is get a bigger rack than you think necessary as I will always expand it and battery back up nas take space don’t they. I may use a patch Panel and keystone couplers and then patch to the se. It will be a work in progress. I’ve order the se and in wall 6 access point to start.
Why do you have a symbology and a truenas? What are you splitting the data?
Doesnt your cat 5e cables running in your walls limit your network speed for future growth in speed ie multi gig connections?
Good question. For me, all the devices those cables go to will never require more than a gigabit. The devices that are using 10gb, I’m either using DAC cables or fiber. Given the unlikelihood of me ever needing multi gig for those Ethernet ports, I just couldn’t justify the cost difference. But I do have a few devices that I am running CAT6 to but even those are only gigabit devices.
What's that grey box which the HDMI and blue ethernet cable go into (in the first before shot of the rack). Thanks
It’s an HDMI over IP transmitter. I actually made a video about it last year. Feel free to check it out if you’re interested.
You are aware you can get a crimping tool that will punch down an entire keystone right?
wow looks great!!
Thanks! Long time coming.
Hi Samir, I upgraded my network setup to Unifi gear. Got a Cat6a cable from True cable, UDM SE PRO, 8 port USW aggregation switch, 48 port Pro POE switch, and Enterprise 8 port POE switch. Connected them all with DAC cables and lastly, my ISP upgraded to 5 gig internet speeds but for some reason, the Unifi switches are capping the speeds at around 2.5 gigs. When I connect the PC directly to the UDM SE PRO via the SFP+ LAN port, I am getting 5 gig speeds but am unable to do so using the SFP+ ports on either of the switches. Would anyone here happen to know why this could be happening? I am really having a hard time trying to find a solution for this. Unifi support team has taken my support tickets but it's been almost 3 weeks and they have just not responded back to me. :( Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
What happens if you do iperf tests between a machine connected to one of the switches and a machine connected to the UDM SE? Does it also have same issue? To test that you would need to change both the SFP+ ports on the UDM SE to LAN.
This way youll be able to troubleshoot without having the internet connection being in the equation to see where the bottleneck is.
@@TechTalkwithSamir Let me check this and get back to you. Thank you, Samir.
I think the only thing that nags at me is the DACs going across devices. If you need to swap out the switch above the patch panel, you have to unplug the one above it, too.
Yea not ideal but to accommodate the network topology and the most minimalistic cabling, this was the best way. I did consider putting long DAC cables through some of the empty slots on the patch panel and bring it down through the back, but that seemed to create a bigger mess. Who knows maybe a future iteration of my setup will fix it lol
Use rack studs next time, quite easy to work with and do not damage any fingers
Definitely will consider that going forward! Cage nuts are awful to work with lol
Nice view on the front, but I don’t like the clutter behind the closet. The closest should be closed. I put the modem behind the wall. When drilling, use a vacuum clear, it’s better for your IT material… 😊
I did use a vacuum off camera after the fact lol. I unfortunately can’t have a closed rack due to the room’s cooling situation. I live in Texas and it gets VERY hot in the summer :(
@@TechTalkwithSamir you can close the closet and install ventilation in it …
I definitely could. And it may be something I do in the future. But from practicality perspective, it’s not really necessary at this point considering it’s a closet that’s out of sight anyways. But never say never lol
Have you tired racks studs?
I have not. But lots of people recommended them in the comments so I’ll definitely try them next time I need to rack something.
RGB for the win!😉🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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So confused. Why is a closet in a living space unfinished and why would you not put the equipment in the closet? I am regretting having a 42U rack now that I’ve consolidated my servers down to 1u devices.
Lol the unfinished area is an attic
@@TechTalkwithSamir ok that makes more sense. You said your OCD was triggered and I was wondering how that wasn't making it go nuts. lol
Haha yup. I blurred it because I was embarrassed by the mess in the attic lol
Why not put it in the room behind?
That’s actually an attic with no air conditioning. In Texas, that is basically a death sentence for electronics.
i have owned Ubiquiti twice, and i have not been happy with the wifi speeds. and now i just feel its too much work for a home network to have it vs a dumb switch.. xD
Way overkill for a home network setup haha
12:47 RGB disclaimer 🤣
😂