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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      yeah, bad setup of a bad design.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        And another...

        http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1324720-migrate-from-hyper-v-to-vmware-and-add-san-s-to-the-mix

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        • stacksofplatesS
          stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said:

          And another...

          http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1324720-migrate-from-hyper-v-to-vmware-and-add-san-s-to-the-mix

          Holy cow. SBS and Alpha Anywhere. I've never talked to anyone other than @dafyre that has used Alpha before. I can't imagine paying for their new webserver.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @DustinB3403
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            And another one for the pile....

            http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1369163-high-available-nas-solution?source=homepage-feed

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              New one. This guy is not aware of the IPOD, hopefully we can fix things before they get bad.

              http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1352900-synology-nas-single-lun-or-several-luns

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
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                This seems like another one, but with enterprise grade hardware...

                http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1392732-w00t-excited-for-this-project?source=homepage-feed

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                • coliverC
                  coliver @DustinB3403
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                  @DustinB3403 said:

                  This seems like another one, but with enterprise grade hardware...

                  http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1392732-w00t-excited-for-this-project?source=homepage-feed

                  Ughhh... Those VNXe's suck... like really bad. I managed one at one of my old jobs and had a terrible time of it. Coincidentally that was an IPOD situation as well. Never get sales advice from your vendor.

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                  • coliverC
                    coliver
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                    Why do they need a VNXe for a vSAN setup? Isn't that typically done with all of the storage directly on the host? Maybe they are using it for a backup appliance?

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403
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                      Yeah a vSAN is virtual... so he was way over sold, unless those dell servers just can't support that much drive space....

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403
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                        Which still doesn't make any sense, local storage > anything else (in 99% of cases)

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                        • coliverC
                          coliver @DustinB3403
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                          @DustinB3403 said:

                          Yeah a vSAN is virtual... so he was way over sold, unless those dell servers just can't support that much drive space....

                          Right... but then you would move up to the next chassis that has a ton of drive bays available. It would still be less expensive then the VNXe.

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
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                            The servers are diskless.... yeah IPOD.

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                            • coliverC
                              coliver
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                              And moving from XenServer to VMWare.... sounds like they needed to spend their budget before the end of the year last year.

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                              • coliverC
                                coliver @DustinB3403
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                                @DustinB3403 said:

                                The servers are diskless.... yeah IPOD.

                                They are going to be sorry when that VNXe forgets it has two controllers and crashes spectacularly (experience).

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  He thought that he had vSAN, then realized it was an IPOD. Oops. Everything bad here. Textbook bad design, dollars to donuts he used a salesperson to do his job and got burned, moving from the best (Xen) to the worst (VMware), on and on.

                                  And maybe the saddest thing is that he posts this all proud like we aren't going to hang out heads in shame that he missed EVERY discussion about "how to talk to vendors", "SAN", inverted pyramids of doom and even the stock Dell sales scam of the last decade on SW. He definitely never asked anyone to check this over before turning the company's IT decision making over to a slimy sales guy.

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller But Scott it's a great start to the new year for that sales person!

                                    I mean come on, by January 14th this was sold, and paid for!

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                                    • mlnewsM
                                      mlnews
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                                      Here is one just getting started. No problems yet (other than overspending, as always) but lots of misunderstandings. The typical SMB misuse of NAS and SAN has helped to lead the OP a little ways down the garden path.

                                      http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1400197-san-schooling-huge-cost-differences-help-me-understand-the-differences-please

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                                      • travisdh1T
                                        travisdh1 @DustinB3403
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                                        @DustinB3403 said:

                                        This seems like another one, but with enterprise grade hardware...

                                        http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1392732-w00t-excited-for-this-project?source=homepage-feed

                                        Apparently we're all to mean for the Spiceworks community? Thread not found now.

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                                        • DustinB3403D
                                          DustinB3403 @travisdh1
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                                          @travisdh1 said:

                                          @DustinB3403 said:

                                          This seems like another one, but with enterprise grade hardware...

                                          http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1392732-w00t-excited-for-this-project?source=homepage-feed

                                          Apparently we're all to mean for the Spiceworks community? Thread not found now.

                                          Yeah the OP requested that the SW Moderators delete the post... there is a cached copy without the OP's responses to the topic still on SW under scott's topic

                                          Somewhere in there...

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                                          • travisdh1T
                                            travisdh1 @DustinB3403
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                                            @DustinB3403 said:

                                            @travisdh1 said:

                                            @DustinB3403 said:

                                            This seems like another one, but with enterprise grade hardware...

                                            http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1392732-w00t-excited-for-this-project?source=homepage-feed

                                            Apparently we're all to mean for the Spiceworks community? Thread not found now.

                                            Yeah the OP requested that the SW Moderators delete the post... there is a cached copy without the OP's responses to the topic still on SW under scott's topic

                                            Somewhere in there...

                                            /popcorn

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