What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Is this one of the Hangout ones? Where everyone is on video the whole time?
Yes. It's fine if you have the bandwidth and watch to watch people. But there is nothing valuable to see, just heads talking.
It sounds like there isn't a lot of value in the webinar regardless...
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No they are always like that no matter what the subject it.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Is this one of the Hangout ones? Where everyone is on video the whole time?
Yes. It's fine if you have the bandwidth and watch to watch people. But there is nothing valuable to see, just heads talking.
It sounds like there isn't a lot of value in the webinar regardless...
Definitely not this one. There was basically no tech experts. It was all very junior guys, guys who called $80K people the "expensive specialists" that they want to eliminate so that IT can be reduced to helpdesk people. All are from really little, limited environments and didn't understand their market or how the products being discussed would apply. And the big enterprise vendors involved are talking about companies with millions in their budgets while the other guy is talking about not being able to afford one $80K IT staffer. So a big mismatch.
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@Minion-Queen said:
No they are always like that no matter what the subject it.
I've done some and like to think that I have provided value. Of course, I'm not moderated either. This was.
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This is what they were trying to sell as if the smallest business would need one:
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Just my 2 servers ran a tune of 60k.
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@scottalanmiller said:
This is what they were trying to sell as if the smallest business would need one:
I stopped looking at the site when I was greeted with the "Important message from EMC and Cisco" lol.
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@scottalanmiller said:
How did you two get that high?
I'll take "Question's I've asked guests at my house after a dinner party" for $500 please Alex
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
Just my 2 servers ran a tune of 60k.
How did two get that high?
Each server is:
Dell R720 (xd? It's got 12 x 2.5" bays)
256GB of RAM
1.2TB RAW SSD Storage (6 x 200GB drives, Dell branded, most likely, 800GB Usable in RAID 6).
2 x NVIDIA Grid K2 cards.These are for VDI and they run some heavy hitter apps. Adobe Photoshop and Premiere, AutoCAD, and a few others that I can't remember.
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Oh okay, that's some serious hardware.
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@dafyre said:
These are for VDI and they run some heavy hitter apps. Adobe Photoshop and Premiere, AutoCAD, and a few others that I can't remember.
How many users are you supporting with that hardware that run PS/CAD/etc? How does VDI compare to high end workstations?
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Getting our first openSuse Leap 42.1 VM installed. Going to have install pics shortly.
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Nice. Need to get Fedora 23 installed too.
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Soon, I hope.
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After a seriously hot day, a massive rain just started here. So nice.
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Just swam for an hour with my girls.
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@MattSpeller said:
@dafyre said:
These are for VDI and they run some heavy hitter apps. Adobe Photoshop and Premiere, AutoCAD, and a few others that I can't remember.
How many users are you supporting with that hardware that run PS/CAD/etc? How does VDI compare to high end workstations?
Betweeen the two systems, we expect to get between 150 and 300 people per system (not everybody is going to run the heavy apps, of course). It looks like we may be switching them out to be RDSH servers instead of using VDI for better resource usage and performance of those same Apps.
For our initial test group, it's not going to be a good ROI. However, as we grow this,.... It'll be 30k per server that will replace 150 workstations... If you figure 700 per desktop... we'll see a good ROI once we start getting it into labs and such. We are a school, so right now, the students are the main focus for this, however, the Tech guys are seeing plenty of places outside of student usage where these could be wildly beneficial.
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@scottalanmiller Swimming in the rain?
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