I get giddy just looking at it - Ubiquiti Cloud Key Enterprise

We all know Jake's a networking nerd, but when he heard we were getting the new Ubiquiti Cloud Key Enterprise, he practically demanded to film a ShortCircuit so he could learn more about it. With tons of customization, feature packed software, and WHEELS, can this live up to Jake's hype?

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 What's Ubiquiti?
0:29 Unboxing and size comparison
1:00 Port and power walkthrough
2:17 Taking a look inside
3:58 Sponsor - Seasonic
4:27 Set up and software
7:41 Overall thoughts
8:20 Outro

[ezikhoyo]

Would've been nice to have Jake explain what the cloud key is for and what it does :P

[terryjohnson]

We've been running this since it was released - 3000+ users, 100+ AP's, 75 switches. Never bogs down unlike our self hosted solution.

[thany]

Awesome stuff. But I have one question that would really benefit me appreciating this video: what does a Cloud Key actually do?

[ulrar]

What you're describing at the end is pretty much the UDM Pro, it's rackable and runs all 4 controllers including protect. It's not a bad machine for home use

[Metal_Maxine]

OMG! That was a Dan sponsor read - I'd listen to him tell me the advantages of a SeaSonic power supply any time. ❤

[rush]

I'm disappointed that it does not have dual SFP for real redundancy if the switch its connected to dies. Feels like the solution is only half baked

[Saaihead]

I love this Unify stuff. I run it at home and at work we also use it a lot at remote projects. In our case the small Cloud Keys are good enough, but I would love to have this baby in our server room.

[MartinBalle]

Maby you could give a quick explanation on what a cloud key does

[jonm]

Almost skipped through that ad spot before I heard Dan's beautiful voice coming through. Was a nice switch up to have a calm low pitched ad read for a change!

[QuadroNVS]

The Ubiquti GUI is so pretty and doesn't look cluttered. My place of business uses Aruba wireless AP's and although the adoption/provisioning process isn't terrible, the troubleshooting within the Aruba web GUI kind of is.

[PedanticTwit]

I really wish Ubiquiti would, for just maybe like six months, focus on implementing basic enterprise functionality in their software, though. Having to use an SSH console to view firewall logs is straight-up unacceptable. That's why my UDM Pro sits behind an OPNSense VM. And even _that_ is a pain in the ass to get working right, as there's no way to disable source-NAT from within the software. It literally requires SSHing in and fucking with iptables directly.

[PhenomIIT]

The MSP i used to work for we had setup prpbably a couple thousand switches across hundreds of sites and AP's reporting in to 2 separate unifi VMs running under Ubuntu Server on the same physical box. It still amazes me how well it worked with everything adopting and reporting over the WAN... Now i just have 10 sites on my self hosted VM, still works perfect!
Bonus, we had IMPI because we were running on server hardware (and so am i) before it was mainstream haha

[thorpeyt]

I would have loved to see LTT do a video on the self hosted unifi controller

[markmulder]

For 5000 dollars though, get an actual server, self-host the unifi controller in a docker, and use the server for a million other cool things.
Heck, you could do that and still spend way less (i know i did :) ).

[dereks]

UDM Pro makes for a nice rack mountable cloud key.

[HeadTow]

The cloud keys are used to control Unifi devices like switches, access points, sensors, doorbells, phones, etc. This one supports 2000 devices which is a step up from the largest Dream machine that can control 200+ devices with it's built in controller. I've only been able to control over 200 devices with controller software running on an Ubuntu server. The other controllers including ones running on Windows servers stall and struggle and don't behave well. Update: The Enterprise UCK works well, it’s very responsive controlling 300 devices. It does not run the protect software like a Dream Machine so it won’t control UniFi Sensors.

[salazul]

I don't usually comment but this video doesn't attempt to properly describe what this device does or what it's for. It talks to the rest of your endpoints and clients? Really missed the mark here, ultimately you're expecting your audience to know what they're looking at as if they work with these systems on a day to day basis. What is a Cloud Key? What does it do? Is it a Key Management Server? Central Management? Even those are over most people's heads without at least some form of exposition.

[dan_lev]

Two separate power supplies, to two separate UPS units, to two separate power sources. It's Ubiquiti's answer to the internal database taking a shit when power fails.

[Jona-]

I work as a Teamlead for Network and Security and when he said „most expensive“ I was thinking more like 90.000$, I think I am to used to Cisco pricing😂

[mcd]

Love Ubiquiti! Been running it in my house for 3 years and it’s amazing!