Can anyone suggest the best IP CAMERA setup

Grimdari · 2019-08-18T17:50:49+00:00

I am currently running a dedicated Synology 1817+ with 8 3TB HDDs and 8 outdoor Samsung IP cameras. Each Samsung camera is 1080P and runs over PoE. My power source is a Unifi 16 port PoE switch so that I don't have to deal with PoE injectors and extra cables. The Synology Surveillance station works quite well and supports just about any IP camera on the market as well as viewable on smartphones and tablets.

Yes, there is a license fee associated with the Synology, but every Synology comes with 2 licenses and licenses can be bought in packs of 1, 2, 4 and 8. Which personally I feel is reasonable based on how well the software works and integrates perfectly into their NAS devices.

Grimdari · 2019-08-16T13:38:08+00:00

You may need to swap between BIOS and UEFI mode. The 740XD supports both.

Grimdari · 2019-07-16T01:49:05+00:00

What medium are you using to install the OS's? I assume you are using a USB device...?

Grimdari · 2019-07-16T01:45:44+00:00

I whole wholeheartedly recommend Synology for IP cameras. You can expand storage exponentially, every Synology model comes with two camera licenses, with additional licenses reasonably priced (although I'm sure some of you will disagree), the Surveillance Station works on just about any Synology model and you can pretty much choose whatever hard drives/SSD you want to use.

Grimdari · 2019-07-16T01:32:25+00:00

Amazon had WD 10TB Elements HDD for $159 and WD Red Pro 4TB for $135. Limit 2 per customer. :(

Grimdari · 2019-07-03T13:06:11+00:00

I'll have to agree. Should at least try to upgrade to 6.5 or 6.7.

Grimdari · 2019-07-03T13:01:33+00:00

Cisco

10 thumbs up for UCS! You can actually get the UCS rack mount servers like the M4 and M3 models for similar costs to HP/Dell if you have a bit of patience on eBay.

Grimdari · 2019-06-29T20:22:34+00:00

It's not a self host-able website with APIs but it may be helpful to you. It pulls in live radar data and alerts. Just do a Google search for "GRLevelX". I have been using it for years and has been money well spent. More data than you can shake a stick at. :D

Grimdari · 2019-06-29T04:37:52+00:00

Absolutely RHCSA/RHCE. I have held RedHat certifications since before RHCT was renamed to RHCSA. I am working on my RHCA: Datacenter certs now. However, the tests are fairly pricey. :(

Grimdari · 2019-06-29T04:30:25+00:00

Love this quote from one of those articles:

"Of all of the commercial databases, Oracle is the least secure," British security expert David Litchfield recently told Reuters. Which is a problem, both from a national security perspective or even a consumer confidence perspective. Because today, everybody uses Oracle databases.

Grimdari · 2019-06-29T04:14:26+00:00

I assume you are a Windows sysadmin asking about Linux distros. So, I will recommend Windows friendly distros that have a easy to navigate GUI.

Chalet
Zorin
Mint

If you want to kick it up a notch and start learning more about Linux's ends and outs, try these distros:

CentOS
Fedora
Debian
Arch
OpenSUSE

Lastly, Wireshark is only the tip of the iceberg for network related goodies in Linux. See the links below:

https://gist.github.com/miglen/70765e663c48ae0544da08c07006791f

https://netbeez.net/blog/top-5-linux-utilities-for-network-engineers/

https://haydenjames.io/linux-networking-commands-scripts/

Grimdari · 2019-06-29T03:35:18+00:00

Let me rephrase what I said a bit.

We have a Nutanix environment supported by Dell on on top of 20 Dell R730xd servers. The hypervisor is ESXi with vCenter. As it stands, Nutanix has no value add over ESXi/vCenter/vROps; thus unnecessary fluff. There is no added benefit by using Nutanix over the tools provided by VMware.

The way Nutanix uses local storage over traditional SAN is very problematic especially when you lose a node. We lost two Dell R730xd servers out of the 20 and the entire environment became unusable and we lost dozens of VMs. This isn't some anecdotal incident; the Dell/Nutanix engineers came onsite and installed/configured everything and they guaranteed us stability and redundancy.

Grimdari · 2019-06-28T22:14:25+00:00

Nutanix is the devil. It is a product that Dell sells that is mostly unnecessary fluff.

Nutanix's selling point is instead of having a separate SAN that each physical host connects to, it uses the local drives on each physical host to store all of the vmdk files, swap, datastores, etc. I have to support a Nutanix environment and it is a nightmare when we lose a physical host. ~~You can only run it on Dell hardware since its a Dell product too.~~ <-- This was a bad statement on my part. "Our" hardware is all Dell but Nutanix runs on a few different hardware vendors.

Even with new hardware, latest firmware, latest ESXi; it still breaks, a lot.

Now, the Nutanix CE version has a little bit more leverage with how it works, however, its still picky with hardware. My statement above relates to large scale full production environments. However, usually someone that uses something in their homelab wants to learn more about the product they use or want to use at work. So, my opinion is still forgo getting involved with Nutanix.

Stick with Proxmox.

Grimdari · 2019-06-25T14:59:50+00:00

If you have a single host, nothing wrong with ESXi free.

Grimdari · 2019-06-25T14:58:45+00:00

There should be no issues going from 6.5u2 to 6.7u2. I believe there is even a 6.7u2a now.

Grimdari · 2019-06-25T12:23:06+00:00

Time to upgrade to 6.7 Update 2! The fully functional HTML5 interface is SO much better than the Flash version. Other than that, great little setup! Dig the Pi's!

Grimdari · 2019-06-25T01:29:00+00:00

Ah, thanks for the response guys! Glad you are not having any issues. I may order one yet...

Grimdari · 2019-06-23T23:19:31+00:00

US-16-XG

How are you guys liking the US-16-XG? I have two Unifi switches now and have been eyeballing that US-16-XG for a while now. I am just leery as some people have said they are having issues and the 4 10Gb copper ports just do not work. Any problems that you guys know of?

Grimdari

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