@Dashrender said:
Though I am wondering if it's even worth it - it could be like the buying BetaMax, or LDs.
I wonder the same thing... although I couldn't argue that with our President. The new Windows 10 platform may breath new life into the Windows Phone ecosystem but overall I don't see an advantage to it over something like Android. The only thing I can think is if they offer better infrastructure integration and control through AD.
Yep, Columbus was kind of the worst.
We have an Icon that our President requested. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy to use the Windows Phone OS was. Our Director of Sales is now requesting one when he is due. I hope they replace it with something as nice as the Icon.
@ajstringham I understand the work thing.... but standards?
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
Expertsexchange
I used amateursexchange once, let me tell you I won't be making that mistake again.
Part of me really wants to google that...
@Dashrender said:
Looks like one modern server could replace this whole lot, VMs baby!
Not only that but I am beginning to think that the T620 you currently have could make for an excellent virtual host. Maybe sell your other servers and max out the RAM in that bad boy... Providing you aren't struggling with disk space or IOPS that would probably work fairly well..
@g.jacobse said:
@coliver said:
@g.jacobse Well if that is the case it wouldn't hurt to reconfigure that array, one big RAID 10 would be a really good use of those drives.
What are you running into right now? Just too much gear for what you are doing? Are you virtualized?
Not really running into any thing as of yet. Other that the biggest item.. IT'S NOT A DOMAIN! No Active Directory...(yes,..Insert Facepalm here).
No VMs running,.. though I have considered it.
Out of curiosity what are the current roles of these "servers"
@g.jacobse Well if that is the case it wouldn't hurt to reconfigure that array, one big RAID 10 would be a really good use of those drives.
What are you running into right now? Just too much gear for what you are doing? Are you virtualized?
Nope. I've never been a member but from what I have seen of it you can get better answers here or on Spiceworks without paying anything.
The real question isn't what you have right now. It is what load is being used by those servers. Are all the drives full? Then you may want to look at a R730xd (I think that is how they denote it) which provides a silly amount of drive space / SSDs in a 2U box.
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver I think you just turned the flagging NY economy into a positive... tornadoes have nothing to destroy, lol.
Oh the joys of living in a post-90s upstate NY.
@scottalanmiller said:
I've had a tornado start to form in my back yard in New York (near @Minion-Queen now.) One of my best friends in high school had a tornado pick up the barn across the street from his house and carry it over his house and drop it on the other side, missing his house completely (while the foreign exchange student from Spain that had never seen a tornado sat on the front porch watching the whole thing!!) and have had them come through my neighbourhood in Texas while we huddled in the bathroom with the kids. My dad has even sat through a movie in Indiana and suddenly started getting wet because a tornado had removed the roof!
When I used to work up in Rochester I lived through a direct hit from the epic microburst (linear tornado or white squall at sea) that was completely unprecedented and destroyed a straight line like a mile wide from Rochester to Syracuse in the 1990s. That was something.
I live 3-4 hours downstate from Rochester. We had a tornado twice since we've lived here. Thankfully we don't have a whole lot going on in this town so the damage was minimal both times. The frequency of natural disasters still makes this place far safer then some of the alternatives though.
I'm fairly lucky. I was able to redo our infrastructure from the bottom up... This allowed me to spend a significant amount of time on the strategic stuff to better handle the tactical stuff.
I probably spend anywhere from 70-80% on strategic activities (I throw education and research in this as well) in a day. Then the remainder is spent doing tactical help desk stuff.
Agreed, there is no harm in at least applying and interviewing. I know you have plenty of public speaking experience, but interviewing is an exceedingly fun way to practice that talent.
I used to do 5x10... got paid hourly so 10 hours of over time a week was awesome.
I played a bit of Origin and thought it was a good time... Although I would much rather play the old Baulder's Gate and Icewind Dale games over this style of modern RPG.
@Dominica said:
Now this, THIS I get:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinlarosa/problems-only-introverts-will-understand#rqp6a1
That's more like it. Ah, sweet, sweet alone time.
@NetworkNerd said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I didn't know VSA used a VM on each host to do it's job. How does it control the disk beneath the other VMs?
You can build your own VSA to see how it works. You can do it with Linux or BSD quite easily. You build a virtual NAS (which is what VSA means) and use DRBD (Linux) or HAST (BSD) to make the cluster work. You share the storage to the local machine via NFS. Now you have a VM that can provide storage for the other VMs locally.
Quite easily to SAM is not so easy to the person who is semi-familiar with Linux.
It does sound like a cool project to try out to get more familiar with those technologies though. If I find some spare hardware I may dig into it to test it out.
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
People actually do any of those things on that list? Man Extroverts are a strange group of people...
Lost in a parking garage? Apparently I'm hanging out with the wrong people at Spiceworld.
Yes, that is actually what we are like! At least the extreme ones like me. That list is amazingly accurate.
You totally missed the party at SW. You were there? Did I see you and black out?
I missed the party at SW. I have family in Austin and met up with them for dinner... little did I know that was going to turn into an 11PM ice cream run to a frozen custard joint that was closed several years ago... Otherwise I had every intention of making the party.