Computing and Networks

Powering On/Off Juniper SRX320

Always use the graceful method unless absolutely necessary.  i.e don’t just yank the power cord out. Graceful method with physical access to device with no console: Press and immediately release the Power button. The device begins gracefully shutting down the operating system and then powers itself off Graceful method while logged in via terminal or… Continue reading Powering On/Off Juniper SRX320

Computing and Networks

eBay Score of the Century

Continuing on from Storage Clustering….a living research project TL;DR: Saved US$16000, smoking network I’m redoing my home and lab network with the goal of achieving the ability of faster then 10Gb/s connections to and between the storage cluster and computational node cluster.  I was put off by the cost of going 10Gbe (ethernet). What I… Continue reading eBay Score of the Century