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Visiting a Data Center next Week

RedCOMET

RedCOMET

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Hey AT Network gurus,

I'm doing a a summer internship and my department was able to get a group of us new hire and interns a tour of one of their data centers. I was told they have 5 data centers of varying size, and this particular one is about 80k sq ft.

So, AT network gurus, while I'm on the tour oogling all the equipment and racks, are there any questions I should be asking the DC people, or things I should be observing?
 
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Ask how network service is delivered to the DC and have them show it to you. It may be in a different room.

Ask how they are dealing with the explosion of 10 gig ethernet and VMware.

Ask if they've considered data center bridging.
 
yinan said:
Dont touch anything.
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This, I remember when I worked in a datacenter a few years ago, the cleaning people were constantly screwing stuff up when they were cleaning, the best was the security guard who was surfing porn on the printserver when all of the operators were off shift on Sunday. Dude was trying to save it to 3.5 inch floppies.
 
spidey07 said:
Ask how network service is delivered to the DC and have them show it to you. It may be in a different room.

Ask how they are dealing with the explosion of 10 gig ethernet and VMware.

Ask if they've considered data center bridging.
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I've just googled "data center bridging" and am Still not sure what it is.. can you explain to a newb? I'll be sure to ask the other questions.

ch33zw1z said:
OP, ask them how to stop script kiddies from hacking their interweb
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I'll be sure to polish this questions before I ask it.

any thing else guys? Like perhaps why buy a used data center vs building a new one? ( hint they bought this data center from another company)
 
From what I am interpreting of the Wikipedia article for "Data Center Bridging" (I know, not exactly a reliable source of information), but anyways it appears it's a new Ethernet standard to reduce or eliminate dropped packets, among other things. Basically more stringent data loss prevention.

I could certainly be wrong about that.
 
Ask:
Do you do geo-clusters or VMotion between datacenters?
If active/active, how do you handle synchronization between the databases in each datacenter?
If you use Cisco's GSS to handle load balancing between datacenters, how do you handle clients who have cached the DNS record/IP of the datacenter that just failed?
 
Cooky said:
Ask:
Do you do geo-clusters or VMotion between datacenters?
If active/active, how do you handle synchronization between the databases in each datacenter?
If you use Cisco's GSS to handle load balancing between datacenters, how do you handle clients who have cached the DNS record/IP of the datacenter that just failed?
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How? Dcb and trill!
 
spidey07 said:
How? Dcb and trill!
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I thought Trill or FabricPath was meant to be used within each datacenter boundary, and not between datacenters.
You probably meant to say LISP.

Some of the other members were wondering what you meant by DCB/Datacenter Bridging.
Do you care to explain?
I assume it's anything that can help put hosts on the same L2 network between DC's, such as OTV or AToM, but wanted to confirm.
 
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