Double Inverted Pyramid
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I found one. I was asked to take a look at a network recently and not only did I find a the infamous Inverted Pyramid. I found two of them!
Yes, identical SAN's but no replication or snapshots between the two of them. Im looking forward to what else I'll find.
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@NETS What did each IPOD have for components?
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Dell 730 servers, HP MSA SAN's , 5 VM's on each, and only about 1/3 of each SAN used.
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Hmm I wonder what kind of setup they were going for. That's a ton of equipment for what appears to be a tiny workload
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Agreed, We are working on getting some usage numbers to figure out what the loads look like over a period of time.
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/popcorn This aught to be good.
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@NETS said:
@travisdh1 said:
/popcorn This aught to be good.
Not sure I follow.
It's an expression meaning that he is grabbing some popcorn to watch the show... that the unfolding of the information will be interesting.
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@NETS said:
Dell 730 servers, HP MSA SAN's , 5 VM's on each, and only about 1/3 of each SAN used.
Did they give any indication as to why they chose two SANs for that load? Like were they trying to spread out the performance?
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Spread out the profit margin more like @StrongBad
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I'm not really sure why they went this direction. There are a few other things that are making me shake my head and several red flags were raised during our initial meeting. We won't be back for a couple of weeks but I think that a large budget and a lack of understanding lead to their current infrastructure.
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@NETS said:
I'm not really sure why they went this direction. There are a few other things that are making me shake my head and several red flags were raised during our initial meeting. We won't be back for a couple of weeks but I think that a large budget and a lack of understanding lead to their current infrastructure.
More than likely asked a "expert" and mentioned HA. sales men (i mean experts) seem to like SAN's!!!! no idea why ($$$$$)
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@NETS said:
I'm not really sure why they went this direction. There are a few other things that are making me shake my head and several red flags were raised during our initial meeting. We won't be back for a couple of weeks but I think that a large budget and a lack of understanding lead to their current infrastructure.
I often say that budgets as a general case are bad things, but more often than not it is over budgeting, not under, that seems to really screw companies over. Give people a million dollars that they don't get to take home with them and they are going to find a way to spend it every time. No matter how little they need to spend it.
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Quick update, We went onsite yesterday to install a device and couldn't get a connection. Come to find out there is no DHCP. It's all static and managed on a spreadsheet.
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@NETS said:
Quick update, We went onsite yesterday to install a device and couldn't get a connection. Come to find out there is no DHCP. It's all static and managed on a spreadsheet.
Nice....
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@NETS said:
Quick update, We went onsite yesterday to install a device and couldn't get a connection. Come to find out there is no DHCP. It's all static and managed on a spreadsheet.
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It's super secure that way, right!
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@NETS said:
It's super secure that way, right!
Sure, if by secure you mean totally not - then yeah - it's secure
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If you mean the SAN (as in Storage Area Network, not the SAN Devices) was all static, that is completly normal. You don't normally put DHCP in SANs
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@Jason said:
If you mean the SAN (as in Storage Area Network, not the SAN Devices) was all static, that is completly normal. You don't normally put DHCP in SANs
Hopefully the SAN is on it's own network too - no reason it should be on the normal LAN network.
