What Are You Doing Right Now
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I don't get the point of the SpiceWorks ip scanner
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't get the point of the SpiceWorks ip scanner
No idea either.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You mean the rental didn't come with one of those little foldable pull behind carts/baskets?
Nope, not sure where to buy one either. Maybe the Chinese store.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You mean the rental didn't come with one of those little foldable pull behind carts/baskets?
Nope, not sure where to buy one either. Maybe the Chinese store.
Rickshaw Unlimited?
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sick day....
trying to sleep more, but head is pounding...
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sick day....
trying to sleep more, but head is pounding...
...so you're posting on ML?
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@art_of_shred and?
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@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sick day....
trying to sleep more, but head is pounding...
...so you're posting on ML?
He's posting on ML... From home instead of his office.
Perfectly viable. It's not like he's out at the beach or anything... are you?
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sick day....
trying to sleep more, but head is pounding...
...so you're posting on ML?
He's posting on ML... From home instead of his office.
Perfectly viable. It's not like he's out at the beach or anything... are you?
Let me go look out the window. Nope.
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@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sick day....
trying to sleep more, but head is pounding...
...so you're posting on ML?
If I'm sick enough to be home - you can bet your ass, if I'm awake I'd be on ML.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sick day....
trying to sleep more, but head is pounding...
...so you're posting on ML?
If I'm sick enough to be home - you can bet your ass, if I'm awake I'd be on ML.
I'm home every day, but I don't get sick days, so it's all foreign to me. I think I slept in a little once when I was feeling really lousy.
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@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sick day....
trying to sleep more, but head is pounding...
...so you're posting on ML?
If I'm sick enough to be home - you can bet your ass, if I'm awake I'd be on ML.
I'm home every day, but I don't get sick days, so it's all foreign to me. I think I slept in a little once when I was feeling really lousy.
LOL - true. But then again you're on call 24/7. Most SMB IT folks I know aren't.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sick day....
trying to sleep more, but head is pounding...
...so you're posting on ML?
If I'm sick enough to be home - you can bet your ass, if I'm awake I'd be on ML.
I'm home every day, but I don't get sick days, so it's all foreign to me. I think I slept in a little once when I was feeling really lousy.
LOL - true. But then again you're on call 24/7. Most SMB IT folks I know aren't.
Not entirely. I make it a point to see everything, 24/7, but only choose to do anything about it M-F/8-5.
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@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sick day....
trying to sleep more, but head is pounding...
...so you're posting on ML?
If I'm sick enough to be home - you can bet your ass, if I'm awake I'd be on ML.
I'm home every day, but I don't get sick days, so it's all foreign to me. I think I slept in a little once when I was feeling really lousy.
LOL - true. But then again you're on call 24/7. Most SMB IT folks I know aren't.
Not entirely. I make it a point to see everything, 24/7, but only choose to do anything about it M-F/8-5.
What I meant is that you are on call 24/7. Most enterprise IT are on call 24/7, and like you work M-F 7/8-5/6 ish.
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Right before I left yesterday I overheard a meeting my sort-of supervisors were having in regards to purchasing two new Hyper-V host machines and what their purpose would be. Each server would be identical. One would house our DAG server (it's running out of space anyway) with the other being a replication point for hardware redundancy only, both of which would be Raid 5. This triggered me right before I left for the day.
We are buying two servers and not clustering them so we essentially lose the resources of the second server as it's not being used for anything else. We are also configuring them in a Raid 5 because of budgetary constraints (our client said no so we are trying to find the money in our calculated yearly budget). This is supposed to be a temporary measure until July 1 when we get all of the money for our new budget.
Now, these servers eventually will be repurposed to house about 80% of our infrastructure after July, where the DAG will be moved to a new host that we have yet to purchase. Based on their conversation I don't think they are planning to buy more hard drives in July and configure these hosts in a raid 10 or have they considered clustering at all.
So we're making these things more important with more hard drives and more likely to fail. I need a drink.
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Assuming they are buying HDDs, you need to show them the math that shows why RAID 5 is dead in that space and that they need to look at RAID 6 or RAID 10.
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As for storage for your DAG - you need a whole new server for this? what about a used DAS shelf and some disk?
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@Dashrender The server is on it's way out anyway so it solves two problems but I'm really put out.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We are buying two servers and not clustering them so we essentially lose the resources of the second server as it's not being used for anything else.
Why would you assume you need/want to cluster them? If you don't have licensing for that, that is yet another expense to make that work.
Also, what Hypervisor are they looking at? Hyper-V would be free in this case, but if they are a VMWare shop, then clustering is even more expense.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Assuming they are buying HDDs, you need to show them the math that shows why RAID 5 is dead in that space and that they need to look at RAID 6 or RAID 10.
I really want to avoid parity if this is going to be that big of a percentage of our production servers
