@scottalanmiller said in What to do when server warranties become expensive?:

@Dashrender said in What to do when server warranties become expensive?:

@scottalanmiller said in What to do when server warranties become expensive?:

@Dashrender said in What to do when server warranties become expensive?:

Can't - the not so silent, silent partner refuses to allow them to use a cloud backup service.

No problem, just explain that it's not cloud at all, just hosted.

the problem is - someone else is managing it - at least that what I think the problem is.. I get it entirely 3rd hand.

Hmmmm..... aren't YOU someone else?

lol funny how that works, right?
/sigh

@Reid-Cooper said in HPE Acquires Nimble:

This will really lower competition in the SAN space. Only a few viable vendors left. Nimble was one of the few major players.

I disagree. What about Tintri, Kaminario, or Tegile? There are still plenty of vendors out there in Nimble's competitive tier. I mean they don't compare to HDS or IBM but again, Nimble is a completely different use case.

Honestly I think it would have made more sense for HPE to acquire Tintri for their portfolio at a reasonable price. Nimble is awesome for its own use case, but the acquisition seemed to be just one of appeasement to shareholders.

Unless they are shifting gears and trying to get more competitive in small-medium markets as an all around vendor (aside from adding Nimble, thinking of them purchasing Aruba a couple years ago as well).

@coliver said in xByte to Carry HPE:

@JaredBusch said in xByte to Carry HPE:

@coliver said in xByte to Carry HPE:

@JaredBusch said in xByte to Carry HPE:

I don't care about the hardware, but I have always bought Dell because the onsite warranty costs were better.

I have clients that prefer one thing or another for whatever reason. But I care not.

I'm not sure I understand brand loyalty especially where servers are concerned. They are commodity hardware now, and have been for the past several years, get what you need for the moment at the best price and move on.

You are reading something into what I said. I said I buy dell because the warranty is cheaper. Period. I did not say anything about the parts. I also have not bought a new server in years. Last few have been from XByte.

Nope, not reading anything into what you said. Using your comment, that your customers have a preference, to spring board to something else.

Those preferences don't matter though, because they are just responses to marketing. They are not IT people and have no idea. Thankfully there is no difference as we have all said.

@travisdh1 said in HPE to Acquire Simplivity:

Haven't read the entire thing yet, but this line made me go... what?

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire SimpliVity, a leading provider of software-defined, hyperconverged infrastructure, for $650 million in cash."

So, is it software defined storage or hyperconverged.... two different things!

Simplicity is hardware defined actually, it's specifically the one non-software player in the space!

I still have a working, and very powerful, PA-RISC powered desktop.

@ntozier said in HPE Sells OpenStack and Cloud Foundry Business to Suse:

HP seems to be selling off a lot of stuff recently...

Definitely trimming the fat if nothing else.

@scottalanmiller said in HPE Laptop Compromises US Navy Sailor's Personal Data:

@DustinB3403 said in HPE Laptop Compromises US Navy Sailor's Personal Data:

If it doesn't effect the government overall why do I really care?

all hardware developers (and mainstream software) are culpable when it comes to this.

Why the military hasn't moved to Linux "globally" is insane.

I'm very lost as to what you are saying. What does the OS, hardware developers or anything else random have to do with the situation?

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@Shuey said in Invalid Drive Movement from HP SmartArray P411 RAID Controller with StorageWorks MSA60:

Thanks again to everyone who replied and gave feedback on this. It's great to know that there's a solid community of knowledgeable people who are willing to share their expertise - I really appreciate it!!

Sadly we didn't find your solution. But happily you found it on your own!

I understand your goal and the idea isn't bad, it's just not possible. Now, what IS possible, if you really want to do this and are set up as I imagine you are from the description (that is, assuming that this is a data-only array and not the OS... so we assume that the OS is always still intact...)

Have a WARM spare (no such thing as a HOT spare with RAID 0, it just is nonsensical, it's a meaningless term to use in that case.) This will sit idly by. Have a monitoring script that looks for an array failure. Have the script talk to the Smart Array utility and disengage the dead drive. Have the script talk to the utility and add in the WARM spare to a new array group. Have the script built a new RAID 0 array. Have the script unmount the old array and remove any legacy bits of it. Detect the new array. LVM the new array. Format the new array. Mount the new array. Signal to the node that it is ready to proceed.

So I think that this does what you want, but it is not a HOT spare and it is not the RAID controller doing the work, it is your own script. So your end result can be done, just not using the exact tool and location of tool that you were imagining. But having a spare on board and rebuilding the system is possible.

But most likely there will be a better way to skin this cat. But I can see a potential use case for this.

I would guess that HP-UX will be retired. The cost of porting it will be high and so much of its value was tied to PA-RISC and then to Itanium. HP-UX on Xeon will lack much of what made HP-UX important.

@scottalanmiller said:
Wow, I need to read a bit more... apparently skimming the article and the OP didn't help with comprehension.

@DustinB3403 said in SAM-SD Hardware Server Vendors:

@scottalanmiller is there a ballpark entry price for SAM-SD hardware? Are you approving all of all the systems designed? Or did you simply license the term (like Trump) licenses his name?

Prices will be available soon. It's full support, real support unlike SMB devices. So not super cheap 🙂