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-title: "Week 11, Sunday:"
+title: "Week 11, Sunday: Staging and Lazy Sunday"
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-{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/zengirls.png" alt="Credit: Zen Girls, YouTube" >}}
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+Today I really only have two things to do, but I'm feeling a bit of _ennuit_, that is to say I can't
+be assed to do anything today. Mostly, I spend a lot of time in my bed - it's such a delicious
+sleep, compared to the hotel rooms I've been in in the last week(s). After my brunch with Quinn and
+Marina, I decide to work on the two things of the day.
+
+Firstly, I need to prepare my deployment for [[Brainserve](https://brainserve.ch/)] tomorrow. You
+see, when Fred and I deployed the [[Stollen]({{< ref wk8day3.md >}})] datacenter, we connected two
+waves to Zurich, and two to Lausanne. However, IPng is not in Lausanne yet. Fred and I both agreed
+that this should be remedied, as there is a power commitment in the telco rack in the Brainserve
+datacenter that would allow for me to host the router without costing more money. A good deal, and
+I'll take it!
+
+My default PoP kit consists of a Centec S5612X switch (8x1G RJ45, 8x1G SFP, 12x10G SFP+, 2x40G QSFP,
+which I convert to 2x4x10G instead, and 8x25G SFP28); a Dell R630 VPP router with a small CPU
+footprint so as to fit in 100 Watts of power, and an APU6 for out-of-band access and WiFi on the
+floor. It's pretty straight forward for me to install these Dell R630s, as I typically just grab one
+of the two boot disks from `/dev/md0`, stick a new one in the original server, and a second one in
+the cloned server, and then boot both machines and let the raidsets rebuild. Voila, instant replica!
+
+As I am doing this, the lights go out, which is unexpected. It turns out, my main hypervisor for the
+house is very sick. It has lost all of its disks. I connect via iDRAC and notice that the PCI device
+for the SAS raid controller is completely disconnected. I power it down, open the machine, to find
+the HBA controller flapping around in the breeze in there ... it is supposed to have two plastic
+clips (Dell likes doing everything user-serviceable without screw drivers), but they've both popped
+out. In 25 years of running Dell hardware, this has never happened. The remedy is very easy though:
+I simply press the HBA back into its slot and re-attach the plastic clips. Machine boots, lights go
+on, and all sorts of alarms clear.
+
+As the VPP stuff is installing, I move the MS Flight Simulator to its final spot (where it was
+before Tim and I made it actually work). I'm really short one screen here (with the map and things
+like the ATC response window and flight check lists), so I rummage around on Digitec and find a nice
+13" 1920x1080 screen, but I also find on Aliexpress a nice 10.5" 1280x720 for half the price, so I
+splurge and order both. Why not? I'm on sabbatical and have no income :)
+
+While Brainserve is canonically located in _Lausanne_, it's actually not, and IPng is a sucker for
+correctness with locations. So my POP will be called `chcri0`, from the
+[[US/LOCODE](https://service.unece.org/trade/locode/ch.htm)] for _Crissier_, in the canton of
+_Vaud_. It's for the same reason that the router in "Geneva" is actually in _Plan-les-Ouates_
+(`chplo0`) and the one in "Lille" is actually in _Sainghin-en-M&eacute;lantois_ (`frggh0`). I put a
+default configuration on the Centec switch and decide to skip the APU6 this time, as I only have two
+left, and I don't have time (or, frankly, energy) to install it. Maybe later?
+
+Once the PoP is staged, configured, and ready, it's time for dinner. Marina is making a beautiful
+_Risotto_, commemorating our trip to Italy perhaps, and it has fresh truffle from the forest that
+our neighbor-doggo called Maggie has found for us. The meal is simple yet elegant, with black
+truffle paste in the risotto, and sliced truffle on top. The truffle has been marinating in the rice
+jar for a while, so it has lost lots of its flavor into the rice (great), but in itself is not the
+tastiest mushroom we've eaten (not great).
+
+After dinner, we watch an episode of _Black Mirror_, and then I got downstairs for one more small
+thing: my NLNOG presentation is in two weeks (October 22nd), and it's a different length than the
+other ones, so I'll spend some time making a new copy for this conference. I send an update to the
+program committee at 22:00 and considering I'll be driving to Lausanne and Geneva tomorrow, I decide
+to take it easy and go to bed early.
+
+Today was a lazy Sunday.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-13/IMG_2073.JPG" caption="The IPng lab rack, with a bunch of Dell R630s ready to deploy. To the left, more switches, disktanks and a few Mellanox switches" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-13/flightsim.png" caption="A picture of the FlightSim in its final spot (where it was before Tim and I made it actually work); seen here my Cessna 172 Skyhawk on autopilot" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-13/IMG_2074.JPG" caption="The Brainserve kit: msw0.chcri0 (Centec) and chcri0 (Dell R630), cables, optics, etc. Ready to go!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-13/IMG_2075.JPG" caption="The dinner tonight is the last of the truffle we got from our neighbor's dog Maggie." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-13/nlnog.png" caption="A snapshot of the 30min presentation for NLNOG next week." >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
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