Category: “We have datacenter at home”

  • DC@Home 4 – MPLS WAN improvements, monitoring and backup

    DC@Home 4 – MPLS WAN improvements, monitoring and backup

    So I have been working quite a bit on the MPLS WAN setup the past few weeks. Currently I have two sites running the new MPLS nodes as their gateway and one more currently staged which will be installed in the coming weeks. I still have some work to do for the sites which use…

  • DC@Home 3 – Configuring the MPLS WAN

    DC@Home 3 – Configuring the MPLS WAN

    The past two weeks I have been working hard at getting the new MPLS WAN up and running. The idea is to build a scaleable solution, even though my MPLS cloud never will grow large enough to require the scalability. The plan is also to allow my colleagues to join the MPLS WAN, which means…

  • DC@Home 2 – Setting up the core and underlay

    This weekend I started setting up the core of the provider network. This mainly consisted of configuring MPLS and MP-BGP to run L3VPNs between provider nodes. I also setup a secondary internet connection, which will primarily be used to run active-active tunnels from sites into the MPLS core. One big goal of this new setup…

  • DC@Home 1 – Goals and planing

    I have a lot of tech stuff floating around at home and at friends houses. Some things are in “production” while others are legacy tests that have been left and forgotten. With this in mind I have begun the journey of building a datacenter at home! The most important aspect of doing greenfield is do…