Whistler

Nope, We have "normal" heating i.e coming from boiler, water pumped etc etc. No electric heaters within the house at all. Your Electricity is decently priced! We have all of the equipment running, as mentioned and also have a pond pump outside, however running 24/7 also. I'm looking to replace some of the spot lights to LEDs within the rooms to cut costs. We have a CCTV DVR running also, but I'm wanting to centralise as much as I can, possibly using IP Cameras and then feed it into the Server and store it on the Microserver with eventually a mirror to this proposed server room.

Yup, just Leccy. Nope (I really wish, haha!) 4 Bedroom Detached.

For the whole house? £220 a month. I know the G5's are quite power hungry, but it's served me well and until I can afford another Microserver I can't see myself getting rid of it. Plus, I use 2.5" SAS Drives which wouldn't fit in the Microserver. I have an N54L G7 which works fine for me as discussed in the original post.

Haha, thanks. Yup, definitely will be! I only need 1 cable. I bought a receiver/transmitter from a company called "Esynic" which only requires 1x cable. We have them plugged into our smart switches on their own VLAN and created a trunk on port 8 with our main network VLAN, and the HDMI VLAN. I replicated this setup at work as well. I need to sort out an encryption solution. In regards to physical access, the door itself has a coded lock on it, as well as a physical lock on the door of the Server. There will be a webcam with some software on (can't think of the name) which starts recording whenever motion is detected. I need to look at software for encryption however, any software you recommend to do so? Thanks, Whistler.

I did consider this, but was confused as to how I would make them work with VLANs i.e the VLAN for the HDMI over Ethernet and the VLAN for the Main Network? If these are doable with this then it may be the better option. Cheers for your help! Whistler.

Thanks for your advice, I did consider previously what you've suggested. I've got SFP slots on one end on the switch in the outbuilding, but none on the other switch sadly. I'll see how much money it would be to upgrade my switch to one with SFP slots on it, and also the cable itself. Cheers, Whistler.

Hi, In my Office at home currently, I am running a Dell R710 as my main Hyper-V Host. Works great. I have my "Core" switch running in there, with my Internet connection coming in via Virgin to my "SuperHub" all running inside of my Server Rack. I additionally have an HP Microserver holding all of my Data, using iSCSI to hold all of the VMs running on the R710, as well as all User Data. Before I had the R710, I had an "old" ML350 G5 with a reasonable amount of RAM/Storage. I've got a 1500GB RAID 5 Array pulled together with some old drives, and 120GB for the OS with Server 2012 R2 Datacenter installed on it currently. It is however running idle, with nothing running on it. We have a building in the garden with electricity running to it. I would like to set this server up in the other building to replicate some of the VMs running on my main Hypervisor. The building itself doesn't have any networking in it currently. It receives about 1 bar Wireless coverage from our Wireless inside of the house, but that's not going to be enough. I was thinking of either running a physical Cat6 cable to the outbuilding. The building is only about 15 metres from the house, with the switch that it'd be fed off being around that similar. The current setup I have with the wiring of the house is as follows: Incoming Coaxial from Outside > Switch > Cable from Switch, back out hole Coaxial came in > Into Loft > Switch in Loft (VLANs configured) to feed rooms/another cable coming out of same hole, to Kitchen extension with Switch in there with Television > Another cable coming through other side of house to dining room > Switch in there currently working fine. My goal is to create another trunk port on the last switch in the Dining Room and then run an Ethernet cable from that to the outbuilding. From there I'd reuse another switch I've got, configuring the port as it's uplink and replicating the VLANs I've got setup currently within the house. I'd want to place an HDMI over Ethernet receiver that I've got in there also, so I can watch television in the outbuilding also. I'd also like to use a Graphics Card in the HP ML350 and create a Windows 7 VM and use it as a workstation also, using my existing Domain Credentials I have as a "Standard User" i.e I want anyone to be able to logon to the Server, but not kill any of the replicating VMs. I'd be interested in your thoughts on this, as on paper it sounds like a reasonable thing to accomplish. You may equally ask why I want it?! Well, the simple answer to that I guess is that the building/server isn't being used for anything else. I want to use it, and I have all of the equipment and it seems to be a fun project. Thanks to anyone that can give pointers on this. Whistler.

An update.... I created a trunk for the VLANS and all is working fine. Kudos given to all who helped. It's been a long while since I attempted doing anything like this, let alone doing it in practice! Cheers.

There is no reason for any traffic to pass between the VLANs. In our case, as I assumed - Layer 2 would suffice. I am confused however I am meant to allocate an uplink to this switch. This is one of the cheapest switches on Amazon which gives layer two capability. We previously had the TP-Link offering which did allow us to set as master uplink, however I cannot find this in this model? We are using 802.1Q option for VLANning if that makes any difference? I am trying to be as useful as I can with this, however this is really my first time with this soft of thing. Which switch do I patch the port in the reception to? I think it has to be the Netgear, however I don't know how I can tag multiple VLANs to a certain port? Sorry for all of the questions, however all those who have helped will receive kudos on every post. I want to get this to work, and appreciate everything that's been done so far to help! Happy Friday!

Thanks both of you for the replies. I shall attempt to do this and see what the result is. We need two VLANs as it was recommended that you put the HDMI over Ethernet adapter son their own. If you don't, it will flood the main network and thus knocks our wireless offline. We had VLAN 3 as our HDMI over Ethernet network and VLAN 2 as our main Domain Network as where the switch is located, we need to provide connection to our main LAN from that location.

Hi, hope someone is able to help me out with this setup. I have been given the task of using HDMI over Ethernet to display a video on a television screen in the main reception of our small business. I went with the ESYNiC 120m HDbitT HDMI Extender Ethernet Network Extender option as it supported being distributed over switches. I purchased the NETGEAR GS108E-300UKS and went with the recommendation of assigning the ports to a VLAN (VLAN 3), with ports 5 on the respective switches tagged (1x in reception, 1x in Server room). I additionally setup a VLAN 2 whereby ports 2 and 3 tagged. The rest of the ports are disabled. However, when I'm connecting it, both switches are plugged in and VLAN 2 appears to communicate fine. However, VLAN 3 can't communicate with the sender device in the Server room. There is one port patched in the room, which is connected to an unmanaged switch which is fed off VLAN 2. By my basic understanding of Layer 2 switches, the nodes cannot communicate through VLANS, this is an advantage of layer three? We cannot afford layer three switches, or anything above what we have already bought. I understand my setup won't work as the only uplink for the switch is on VLAN 2 and thus won't communicate. These switches are "SMART" meaning they are configurable via a Web browser. I have been using the 802.1Q VLAN setup option. Is there an option on these switches to configure a, say "master" uplink for all VLANS? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Does anyone have these switches, or can provide me with a resolution? We are really short of cash, and need the switch in reception to serve computers, it cannot be directly patched. As soon as we connect the HDMI extender to VLAN 2 we get an image however the data floods the network and thus knocks off the Wireless. In simple terms, I want to use the switches we've got and use port 5 for HDMI (VLAN 3), ports 2,3 and 4 I want to use for two computers in our reception, on VLAN 2. Cheers for the info you provide. We are a small business and I don't work there full time. I hope we have all the equipment we need? Appreciate any guidance.