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    • pmoncho

      xByte Account Rep referral
      xByte • xbyte • • pmoncho

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      Dashrender

      Loosing good account reps seems to be the norm in the SBM... a sales person often seems to start out on the SMB desk, if they excel, they are promoted to other desks. This has happened to me at least three times across different vendors.

    • B

      Refurbed Cisco gear? (from xByte)
      IT Discussion • xbyte refurbished cisco • • beta

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      scottalanmiller

      Done

    • gjacobse

      MC17: xByte
      MangoCon • mangocon mangocon2017 mangocon 2017 xbyte mangocon sessions • • gjacobse

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      scottalanmiller

      @minion-queen said in MC17: xByte:

      Mike doesn't have an account yet (off to make him sign up).

      He thought that he had one, but we couldn't find it.

    • DustinB3403

      SW Port - New Server for virtual host - Sanity Check
      IT Discussion • xbyte esxi dell r720 replication • • DustinB3403

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      scottalanmiller

      @beta said in SW Port - New Server for virtual host - Sanity Check:

      Oh, one thing I was really curious about too, would it make sense to get an extra drive as a hot spare? Normally with OBR10 and spinning HDD, I'd put every spindle into the array, but since SSDs are going to give me plenty of IOPS and capacity, I didn't know if it is a good/bad idea with OBR5.

      The rule of "no hot spare ever" for RAID 5 still applies. If you were going to do this, you would do OBR 6. OBR6 can make loads of sense here, but OBR5 + HS does not.

      But it is up to you, depends on cost and risk aversion.

    • scottalanmiller

      Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge FX
      xByte • dell server xbyte dell poweredge dell poweredge fx dell poweredge fx2 • • scottalanmiller

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      @NerdyDad said in Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge FX:

      Its a nice concept, but unless you can purchase more than 2 chassis for ultimate redundancies, your eggs are still in one basket, shared with the storage.

      But in IT, eggs in one basket is a good thing, not a bad one. It's better to have your storage in the same basket as your servers, even when doing an IPOD. The worst option is to separate them.

    • scottalanmiller

      xByte to Carry HPE
      xByte • xbyte hpe • • scottalanmiller

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      JaredBusch

      @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.

    • DustinB3403

      R730 PDR1001 Fault on Drive 3
      IT Discussion • xbyte dell warranty smart failure • • DustinB3403

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      scottalanmiller

      @BRRABill said in R730 PDR1001 Fault on Drive 3:

      @scottalanmiller said in R730 PDR1001 Fault on Drive 3:

      Thankfully just a PERC, so pop out the old one, pop in the new, enjoy your coffee.

      I know we've been over this before, but is there any way to ensure that doesn't blow a second drive? Or is that mainly age related, with a little bit of bad luck thrown in?

      Ensure? No, that's never an option. But replacing a drive in mirrored RAID (RAID 1, RAID 10) does not increase the risk of another drive blowing. That's part of parity RAID, not mirrored. So you protect the "other" drives from blowing my choosing mirrored RAID from the outset.

    • Minion Queen

      Follow me on the NTG LAB Epic Minion ROAD TRIP
      Water Closet • ntg lab scale xbyte colocation america unitrends • • Minion Queen

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      Minion Queen

      Been working all day today. I am tired and my in box will never recover, neither will my butt.

    • Minion Queen

      Epic Road Trip!
      Water Closet • scale unitrends colocation america xbyte ntg lab • • Minion Queen

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      KatieUnitrends

      @Minion-Queen The food from all of those places is worth every calorie, I promise 🙂

    • Minion Queen

      NTG Lab is moving!
      IT Discussion • scale unitrends xbyte ntg lab colocation america scale hc3 • • Minion Queen

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      scottalanmiller

      This battlestation is fully operational!! We have the first seven nodes of lab power online now from California! Very excited for all of the cool, new projects that we will be doing shortly.

    • L

      Dell R430 with PERC H730 support SSD? (Samsung 850 Pro)
      IT Discussion • dell xbyte samsung 850 pro perc perc h730 ssd poweredge r430 • • LAH3385

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      StrongBad

      @xByteSean said:

      @BRRABill Yes as a matter of fact we do. Any proof of concept box can be configured and shipped to you, and if it didn't fit your needs we would provide the return shipping label at no cost to you.

      That is very awesome!

    • BradfromxByte

      xByte R820 Video
      xByte • dell servers poweredge hardware ssd dell poweredge r820 xbyte • • BradfromxByte

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      scottalanmiller

      The R820 is a very cool unit. So many cores and so much memory. Perfect for massive Linux and FreeBSD systems.

    • scottalanmiller

      Interested in Working with the NTG Lab?
      IT Discussion • ntg lab xbyte scale scale hc3 readynas synology iosafe drobo dell xenserver kvm • • scottalanmiller

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      As mentioned earlier, I would be interested, but would like to know more about the lab now that you have all in place, on what do we get to play with

    • scottalanmiller

      Awesome xByte Beach Ball Swag
      xByte • xbyte swag spiceworld 2015 spiceworld • • scottalanmiller

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      scottalanmiller

      Me pissed off at it right now.

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    • JaredBusch

      iDRAC not defaulted?
      xByte • xbyte idrac dell • • JaredBusch

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      JaredBusch

      @scottalanmiller said:

      I think that you are probably stuck making an in-person appearance if your colo facility does not offer a KVM hook up for you.

      Offered, but if I spin up a new asterisk instance on this new server and migrate my settings, I can can turn off the old one and will need to go on site to reconfigure those drives and install server 2012 data center on it anyway. So I will just do it all at the same time.

    • ryan from xbyte

      Testing the Limits of the Dell H710 RAID Controller with SSD
      xByte • perc ssd raid xbyte h710 dell • • ryan from xbyte

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      DustinB3403

      @creayt said in Testing the Limits of the Dell H710 RAID Controller with SSD:

      Link seems to not work.

      A bit of necromancy there. . .