So I have a few VPS's and dedicated servers with a few different hosts. All have multiple IPs allocated to them.
How can I go about creating a private LAN to connect all these together? It needs to be secure and ideally a simple process to add more nodes to the private LAN.
Is this possible, and how secure would a setup like this be if say one of the nodes were compromised?
Thanks!
I have 2 servers, both with Windows 2003 R2 Each have 2 NIC ports that are 10/100/1000 They are both connected to our LAN + joined to the domain (1 NIC port free on each server)
The problem is that our main router is only 10/100 on the ports that these servers are connected to.
Since one server is going to host SQL 2005 and the other will be running Altiris NS7, I was hoping that I could use a crossover cable to connect the two directly, thus taking advantage of their 1gbps NIC cards.
Is this possible? If so what steps do I need to take to accomplish this? What needs to be done to make sure that when the app server is communicating with the SQL server that it is using the direct link vs traversing the LAN?
Thanks a lot!
So, I have inherited a mess of a server room.
Rack 1: 5x 48 port patch panels; 140 in use | 3x 48 port switches
Rack 2: 4x 48 port patch panels; 120 in use | 3x 48 port switches
Rack 3: 3x 48 port patch panels; 95 in use | 3x 48 port switches
Rack 4: used for border routers, and VOIP equipment. also has 2x 48 port switches
Rack 5: 7x 48 port patch panels; 170 in use | 1x 48 port switch
Rack 6: 0x 48 port patch panels; 0 in use | 1x 48 port switch
Note that this is a production environment. I cannot just unplug everything and start from scratch, as there is a total of 32 hours of downtime over the weekend and thats it.
VLANS are a mess as well, we have 9 different groups of PCs, and only 4 VLANS for them.
The first step would be to get all the VLANs correctly setup and configured IMO.
Past this, what is going to be the best way to get this wiring mess simplified? Right now there is no rhyme or reason to how it is wired, there could be a cable going from a rack 1 patch panel to a rack 5 switch, or a rack 3 patch panel to a rack 1 switch, etc. Toss in the VOIP power dist. units, and you could have it going rack 1 patch panel -> voip power @ rack 5 -> rack 2 switch.
My only thought so far would be to get a bunch of switches setup (example: 4x 48 ports for Rack 1) and move all the ports in use on rack one to those switches. Then repeat the process with more switches + any now empty ones.
Any other ideas on methods here?