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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said:

      @scottalanmiller said:

      @Dashrender said:

      But the law aspect also plays a lot into the ability of those departments to not just be overrun by cowboy management.

      IT rarely has that in their corner.

      One could say that about fiduciary responsibility in IT too, and yet they ignore that when sabotaging businesses in that department.

      That only matters in Public companies, right?

      Not exactly, but basically. It is only forced by the SEC in public companies. As a private company if the owners / investors caught someone doing this they could also fire and then sue them as well. But as a private company the investors also have the right to tell the people that wasting money is just fine. In a public company you can't choose to do that unless you are a B Corp and then it is complex in other ways.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        So the difference is basically in public companies you face the equivalent of a class action and in private ones you face a direct suit. But same risks.

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        • brianlittlejohnB
          brianlittlejohn
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          This guy has 5 servers running only 20 vms stored on a Netgear SAN.

          http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1264839-enterprise-nas-san-and-backup-solution-question

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
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            @brianlittlejohn said:

            This guy has 5 servers running only 20 vms stored on a Netgear SAN.

            http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1264839-enterprise-nas-san-and-backup-solution-question

            And wasn't he considering moving to a QNAP as some sort of "solution?" He stated enterprise in the title and then went for every possible way to be as far from enterprise as you could imagine.

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            • brianlittlejohnB
              brianlittlejohn @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said:

              @brianlittlejohn said:

              This guy has 5 servers running only 20 vms stored on a Netgear SAN.

              http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1264839-enterprise-nas-san-and-backup-solution-question

              And wasn't he considering moving to a QNAP as some sort of "solution?" He stated enterprise in the title and then went for every possible way to be as far from enterprise as you could imagine.

              Yea, it had all kinds of bad written all over it.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                And only six drives. His IPOD is only one of many problems - which is generally the case. People doing really bad things that break best practices and undermine their goals in obvious and fundamental ways often have smaller bad decisions all over the place because the processes that caused the one are often still around.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  And only six drives. His IPOD is only one of many problems - which is generally the case. People doing really bad things that break best practices and undermine their goals in obvious and fundamental ways often have smaller bad decisions all over the place because the processes that caused the one are often still around.

                  he's definitely not looking at the whole package.

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                  • StrongBadS
                    StrongBad
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                    I hope that he is not looking at my whole package!

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @StrongBad
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                      @StrongBad said:

                      I hope that he is not looking at my whole package!

                      Just the tip?

                      OOOHH!

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        Here is another....

                        • IPOD Design
                        • Putting his backups onto the same SAN as product (e.g. no backups at all)

                        http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1272509-how-should-lunds-be-configured-on-your-san

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403
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                          Here is yet another one...

                          Single Storage node and two compute nodes.

                          @scottalanmiller is already on the topic.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            There was another one this morning that I need to track down the link for. It was three computer nodes on a single NetApp FAS2020, which is a decent small NAS and far better than what most people use for these things in an SMB, but still not what you would hope to see. But the OP, in that case, came at it from the fear of what he had, not that he thought that it was a good idea.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Found it: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1277735-newbie-ha-with-single-shared-storage

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                @Garyw provided one today, very good one from a software coupling perspective:

                                http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1307155-another-example-of-the-san-os-being-a-single-point-of-failure

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  Don't have the details but yet another lost MSA / DotHill SAN where the controllers did nothing to protect them:

                                  http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1309837-desperate-lost-config-on-msa-2012i

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                                  • brianlittlejohnB
                                    brianlittlejohn
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                                    http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1324307-smb-upgrading-storage-for-vmware-hosting-on-a-budget-looking-for-suggestions

                                    Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.

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                                    • stacksofplatesS
                                      stacksofplates @brianlittlejohn
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                                      @brianlittlejohn said:

                                      http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1324307-smb-upgrading-storage-for-vmware-hosting-on-a-budget-looking-for-suggestions

                                      Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.

                                      Why is it always these setups that use VMware?

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                                      • dafyreD
                                        dafyre @stacksofplates
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                                        @johnhooks Because that is the name that they know... at least for Virtualization.

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                                        • brianlittlejohnB
                                          brianlittlejohn @stacksofplates
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                                          @johnhooks said:

                                          @brianlittlejohn said:

                                          http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1324307-smb-upgrading-storage-for-vmware-hosting-on-a-budget-looking-for-suggestions

                                          Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.

                                          Why is it always these setups that use VMware?

                                          That is how "HA" is sold by storage vendors, VMWare with a SAN.

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                                          • stacksofplatesS
                                            stacksofplates @brianlittlejohn
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                                            @brianlittlejohn said:

                                            @johnhooks said:

                                            @brianlittlejohn said:

                                            http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1324307-smb-upgrading-storage-for-vmware-hosting-on-a-budget-looking-for-suggestions

                                            Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.

                                            Why is it always these setups that use VMware?

                                            That is how "HA" is sold by storage vendors, VMWare with a SAN.

                                            Where do places draw the line between and IT professional and someone who sets something up that a vendor told them about?

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