oh man, I wanted that job. lol! Congrats!

I don't have anything to compare them too - except for rack servers. I thought it was pretty awesome- guess I was missing out on the real fun.

You must have had lemons. Never had an issue with mine and the firmware updates were a piece of cake. But I only managed one - if I had several I would have hated it.

Whatever - my blade server is better than yours.

My experience with Blade Servers (CISCO UCS B200) is a pleasant one. For the first time in my career, I watched a vendor setup a Server, I didn't have anything to do with it. The enclosure was rack mounted with a FCOE backbone providing 40gb network capability (connections to EMC SAN and dual F5 BIGIP appliances).

This was setup at a Data Center, and was the perfect fit for the type of business. We had ESXi Enterprise licensing so the 5 hosts were in FA and DRS Cluster with a single EMC SAN for shared storage. The management of the blade server was quite a learning curve with this product, but once I had some time with it, I understood how to manage it properly. What I loved most about it was the simplicity of how it worked for our business and how easy it was to expand by adding a new blade. There were no local hard drives to worry about, just an internal thumb drive (or SSD option if you choose) to house the Hyper Visor. V-motion and fail-over was immediate.

What they say: Once you go blade, you never go back....

I haven't read all the posts, but if this is about having a Mango conference out of the US, I'm not sure. I'm not against it, but trying to get work to pay for a trip out of the US, even if it seems less costly, may be an issue for a lot of people. On the other hand, what if there was a World Wide Mango event and it was planned once every 5 years or so? That would be a special event and may make it more plausible to get people to go to. My 2 cents.

@Bob-Beatty
Not really, but that is some cool stuff...

@Minion-Queen
Ok, then - IT WAS ME!!!!!!!!!!

Designing a DMZ via Virtualization (using esxi). Trolling Mangolassi. Updating my facebook with the latest anti obama meme's and trying to think of an excuse to get out of going line dancing tonight with my wife.

I'll say what everyone is thinking: Lots and lots of money.
Then, you can afford good doctors, buy training subscriptions and afford beautiful friends (hehe). bam.

WTH? Guess I'm late, I was going to take credit for sending you everything but I guess you found out who really did! I move to slow.

It depends on the job. If you have to support end users, you need to be at the office when they are, that is usually a scheduling task. But for engineers, administrators, etc... I don't care, nor do I pay attention. If I have to micro manage that, then I'm in the wrong job and I hired the wrong person.

@Breffni-Potter said:

@Bob-Beatty said:

@Breffni-Potter I agree with everything Scott says, with the exception of stopping at strange bars in the middle of the jungle at 10:00 at night.

Are you honestly telling me it was just the "one" thing you disagreed with?

I suspect there might be a few more bar visits you would object to if you cast your mind back.

haha! I.. cant.... remember too many bar visits with Scott, or I may agree with your comment...

@Breffni-Potter I agree with everything Scott says, with the exception of stopping at strange bars in the middle of the jungle at 10:00 at night.

Speaking of pictures, I wish we would have taken more while Paul and I were down there. It was a cool trip.

A.J. would fit in good down in Panama though... As a part time job Scott, he could drive one of the crazy busses!!

Two words for Panama: Traffic. uggh...

I'm late, no coffee

Heck yea - this would be a great place for a MangoLassi convention!

Bread and coffee for dinner.