Home Rack Upgrade - Inside the home of The Ethernet Blueprint
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Walk with me as I downsize from my full size 42U Rack to a 15U Wall mount rack. This transition not only frees up a bunch of space, but it also helped me clean up my cabling in my home. Peek behind the curtains of the Ethernet Blueprint home network to see I run in my personal home!
If you are building a home, putting your network equipment in a rack is an AWESOME way to protect your gear and make everything look nice. Take the time to plan out a great network. You won't regret it.
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Magnetic Rack Light: amzn.to/48oGYdG
Cyberpower 1500VA UPS: amzn.to/3tFQIRK
Velcro Rolls: amzn.to/41NCKtF
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Toggler Concrete Anchors: amzn.to/3S58KGu
1U Cable Management: amzn.to/3TlzHGJ
24 Port Keystone Patch Panel: amzn.to/48GstSb
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Nice looking rack. It would’ve nice to have a light in there when you needed it. The cables were dressed very nice.
Thanks... Lighting is always tricky with these videos...
Thanks for sharing. I would love to see small time lapses of ex. (drilling and mounting the rack, mounting the equipment , etcc.. )
I actually don't know that I have all that. I will have to do a separate video on that... If there is one thing I would maybe recommend to make it easier, that would be to put up a plywoo back board on the concrete so you are installing the rack on the wood and not directly in to the concrete wall.
However, this was my process for this install:
- The height of the rack was determined by the length of my cabling I was moving to it. I wanted to make sure that all the cables would not only reach, but could be ran in a way that made them look nice too.
- Once my height was determined, I held the rack up on the wall and marked my holes with a sharpie - I had a magnet level on it to ensure I was level (but adjustments can be made on the final install)
- I took the rack down and drilled my holes, making sure they were deep enough for the lags I picked.
- (this is where two people is handy), but I held the rack up with one hand and put in a couple temp screws to hold the rack on the wall
- With the rack temporarily in place, I used the concrete lag bolts and washers I installed my permenent bolts in the remaining holes and got them good and tight so the rack was secure (and level)
- Then I removed my temp screws and installed my concrete lag bolts in those locations so I have 4 secure points of contact holding up the rack (all while making sure it was level)
For equipment placing:
- it is best to plan out your equipment a head of time, so I had a pretty good idea on where things were going to go in the rack.
- It did require a little trial and error though as I worked through the process. I typically start with the UPS at the bottom and work my way up from there. It helps that I have done this before many times, and know some of the little things to look out for. Some of your locations willl be determined by whether or not you are using a patch panel or just running the cables directly into your devices. Either method is fine
- Cable management is what makes the final look so nice. I recommend allowing some rack space for cable mgmt panels so you can hide any excess cabling you don't want anyone to see.
I think the rest was covered in the video. I hope that helps if you are working on a similar project!
Thanks for sharing not just what your doing but the logic behind your decisions.
No problem!
I really appreciate your detail to all the reasons you set up everything . I like all the power on one side and all the cables on the other side. I think I have a big weekend project to do this with rack.
I appreciate the feedback. Good luck with your project.
Trick for the tint is to have a soapy water spray bottle and wet the glass first, makes sliding the tint around to align much easier, squeegee out the excess water and trim, job done
Hahah. Thanks. That part worked fine. I didn’t have a sharp enough razor to trim the excess after I did all that. It kept crinkling it and creating a bubble after I had everything applied. Live and Learn. Thanks for the advice.
If you are looking at an easy way to keep tract of your devices IP addresses and assigned cables, IE... I assigned all my protect cameras with static IP's in a Camera VLAN and the associated cable was numbered with the last 2 digits of the assigned IP address. A leading digit "0" or "1" determines if the device goes to either the UDM-Pro (1) or the USW24-Pro (0). I started with the first USW port of 24 and worked my way down to 10.
I like that. Cool idea.
Nice! Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Nice video! My concerns are all the water pipes that are above and around your wall rack. I would look at somehow enclosing all that water pipe. maybe in some PVC, a removable water proof enclosure around the wall rack or something. Remember, if it can go wrong at some point it will. Keep the videos coming
Yes, Absolutely. I had mentioned in the video that my neighbor is an HVAC guy, so I am going to have him fabricate me a tray that goes above the rack and under the pipes to cover me if something were to happen.
The only thing I dislike about the cyber power ups, I have 5 in the house is that the monitor cards cost almost the amount I paid for the whole UPS
Thanks for sharing! You are probably right. That is where they get you!
8:28 ish you pointed to a unit and. said it was for your camera system. I don't recognize that unit. Not NVR? Does your camera feed go to the cloud? Thanks.
What I point to there was my NVR. That is a UniFi Cloud Key Gen2+ and I have it installed in a rack mount kit. The cloud key has a 1Tb hard drive in it for local camera storage. Nothing is done in the cloud. That is one of the options that Ubiquiti uses as an NVR. There isn’t a cloud option currently. I plan on doing some UniFi camera videos soon.
store.ui.com/us/en?category=all-cameras-nvrs
Are the power strips connected to the UPS? Shouldn’t the equipment be plugged in directly to the UPS?
The strips are plugged into the UPS which allows me to have more power plugs protected by the UPS which only has a few plugs on the back... But, yes, you can plug the equipment directly into the UPS as well if there are enough power plugs to support your needs....
@@ethernetblueprint Thank you. And the UPS should always be plugged directly into an outlet correct? I have to use a small extension cord to plug my UPS into the outlet so I hope that’s okay.
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Your neighbor's equipment? Can you share more on that?
I will yes... I will do a separate video on that!
Is there a label maker that you like to use?
I just use a cheap brother labeler from Office Depot... it works for me.
Is the basement climate controlled? Our disaster of wires is in a closet under our stairs would love to move to attic or upstairs.
Depending on where you live and your attic setup, that area of the home can get pretty hot. I know I could never put any equipment in my attic in Nebraska. My basement is not only temperature controlled, but also doesn't get alot of dust so it makes for a great location... If I didn't have my basement, I would probably put my rack in my pantry area... not alot of foot traffic there and it's clean too...
Love it.
Thanks!