Burned by Eschewing Best Practices
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Continued to use a SAN way out of warranty / support options, and has dual controllers failing. Along with didn't make a backup of the VM he needed.
Damn.. that sucks, best practiced he's eschewed, not replacing critical equipment regularly and not checking his backups!
And using an appliance without being in support. Black box approach has a vendor dependency.
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He had "important" data in RAID 0 and quick formatted one of the drives with no backup. Then won't accept advice to send the drives to professional service.
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@brianlittlejohn Yeah...... that guy....
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@brianlittlejohn said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
He had "important" data in RAID 0 and quick formatted one of the drives with no backup. Then won't except advice to send the drives to professional service.
Lol. That is all
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@brianlittlejohn said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
He had "important" data in RAID 0 and quick formatted one of the drives with no backup. Then won't except advice to send the drives to professional service.
Um... LOL?
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@brianlittlejohn Yeah...... that guy....
Oh, and he gets upset with people for telling him the truth. Nice.
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https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1912628-emc-vnxe3100-troublesome-storage-pool-vmware-view-vdi
Black box appliance, did not maintain support. Only mildly burned here, they got lucky.
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Serious butt hurt here: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1912628-emc-vnxe3100-troublesome-storage-pool-vmware-view-vdi
Unfortunately, any further help is forbidden under the new storage rules. Now he's pretending that he asked for more help than he did. He wanted a vendor name, he got two, now he's hurt that he's an "idiot". Seriously?
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I muted him, obviously he was just there to troll.
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Wow He even bought a new VNXe3200 Flash? VNXe is stupid with flash and has lots of yearly licensing or you can't keep using it. Unity devices are the way to go for midrange. but VNXe sucks, and is cheaper initial costs so a lot of SMBs get it even though over time it costs more.
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If you can't figure out on your own using some tools why VDIs are running slow.. you shouldn't be running VDI haha.
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@Jason said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Wow He even bought a new VNXe3200 Flash? VNXe is stupid with flash and has lots of yearly licensing or you can't keep using it. Unity devices are the way to go for midrange. but VNXe sucks, and is cheaper initial costs so a lot of SMBs get it even though over time it costs more.
Yeah, seems like they just made one bad decision after another, then used other bad decisions to justify more bad decisions. They have money to just "set on fire" and then complain about how those of us spending less leave in an "ideal" world and that he has to live with "reality." Talk about excuses.
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@Jason said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
If you can't figure out on your own using some tools why VDIs are running slow.. you shouldn't be running VDI haha.
Or at least shouldn't be "running it yourself."
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Serious butt hurt here: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1912628-emc-vnxe3100-troublesome-storage-pool-vmware-view-vdi
Unfortunately, any further help is forbidden under the new storage rules. Now he's pretending that he asked for more help than he did. He wanted a vendor name, he got two, now he's hurt that he's an "idiot". Seriously?
Don't really understand why people need sugar coated answers.
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@Romo said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Serious butt hurt here: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1912628-emc-vnxe3100-troublesome-storage-pool-vmware-view-vdi
Unfortunately, any further help is forbidden under the new storage rules. Now he's pretending that he asked for more help than he did. He wanted a vendor name, he got two, now he's hurt that he's an "idiot". Seriously?
Don't really understand why people need sugar coated answers.
Special snowflakes need sugar coated platitudes.
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So is spiceworks censoring now based on advertisers or something?
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@Romo said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Serious butt hurt here: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1912628-emc-vnxe3100-troublesome-storage-pool-vmware-view-vdi
Unfortunately, any further help is forbidden under the new storage rules. Now he's pretending that he asked for more help than he did. He wanted a vendor name, he got two, now he's hurt that he's an "idiot". Seriously?
Don't really understand why people need sugar coated answers.
Lots of people need that, it's common... but it has no place in IT or business. It's like my roommate. She's a sweet girl and her dream is to make furniture that cost $500 to make and she wants to sell for $500,000. Of course, there is nothing special about it, anyone with $500K would just look at a picture of it and have someone custom make it for them for $2,000 and, if they really liked it, spend the other $498,000 starting a company to make it cheaper. If I told her that this sounded like a good business idea, she might invest her life savings and all of her time into this idea that obviously won't work. Sugar coating is dangerous in business, and IT is business. As IT Pros, it's our job to remove sugar coating and deal with reality.
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@Jason said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
So is spiceworks censoring now based on advertisers or something?
No, but some individual admins have gotten vendor-favourable rules into individual groups.
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I was not censored in that thread, in case it looked that way. David deleted one of many, many responses that I had. He was fully justified in doing so. I'm not being curtailed in any way. I did unsubscribe from the thread, though, as there was no point - especially after the OP had checked out and didn't even want an answer any longer.
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https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1912628-emc-vnxe3100-troublesome-storage-pool-vmware-view-vdi
^ Thread has been toasted
