@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Looking at my 2017 uptime stats.
For 2017: 99.9992%
Though, so far for 2018: 100%heh
Five nines plus, not bad. And I assume that that is not downtime from failure but downtime from maintenance?
Just had a look at our old product, and that for 2017 is 99.4501% uptime. Pretty pathetic.
@Dashrender said in Dell Quote... good price?:
I should also mention that the shear number of drives doesn't really matter here, it's the size of the arrays.
16 x 800 GB = 12,800 TB RAID 0
As this article points out http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/07/flash_banishes_the_spectre_of_the_unrecoverable_data_error/, 12 TB on consumer drives have a near 100% chance to hit a URE while rebuilding in parity RAID.
I have forgotten if you consider the parity drives space as part of the space or consider remove it from consideration when looking at UREs.
The article does show that even consumer SSDs have 10x lower URE rates than business class spinning drives, and business class SSDs have 100x lower URE rates than business class spinning drives.
So going by that article, Raid 5 at this size will be fine for us and being raid 6 or 10 is just lost space.
@shuey said in Advice on building "storage servers" with two DL380 G7 servers:
@dashrender All I can say at this point is "you have no idea what I'm dealing with at this company in terms of management perspective and expectation". I could spend another several paragraphs trying to defend myself and justify all the stuff I'm dealing with here, but I'm quite certain that none of you guys care to waste your time reading it, and it would actually just create more fuel for the fire that's already burning.
Cue the mangolassi elitist guillotine that lobs off Shuey's head
Wasn't being disrespectful... was just highlighting that deliberation costs money.
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 What did you get?
Chinese phone. Elephone S8. So far, I like it. Lovely screen.
@Carnival-Boy said in SMB vs Enterprise:
They are. They're specialist shelf stackers. They'll be much better than you at stacking shelves because of their practice and experience. Their rate of dropping cans of beans will be much better than yours.
Ok, I can agree with this... but that means specialist != difficult. Specialist = dedicated to only one job, even if easy...
Am I on the right page now?
Hi Folks,
KMM/KVM, this is in rack management. One of the requirements I gave Dell is to have a 1U fold out monitor with keyboard and pad which can connect to the 4 servers for on site management. (Just fold out the in rack 1U unit. Seen loads of these and been very useful in the past. I have already queried with them why I need both KMM & KVM. Will see what they say. Perhaps they KVM is for the servers to connect to and then the KVM connect to the 1U KMM unit. Will see. Together on the quote these only came to about £1,500. So very small compared to the entire bill. iDRAC is useful for us for remote management. The KMM is in addition for easy on site (no need to carry anything) management.
I am interested in R6 or R5 now. Generally, I've done R5 on smaller SSD arrays but not 16 x 800 GB. I just assumed at that size R5 would be quite risky like if spinning disk, that risk is ok for us on the dev hosts but not stable enough for production - or so I thought. Hence Raid 10. But if raid 5 or 6 are considered solid, then I will rethink that... my question. Lets go based on Raid 6. We still easily hit out IO needs and obviously hit our space requirements:
@MattSpeller Yep, this in R10 will be amazing, but Raid 5/6 will easily perform how we need. The R10 decision was more to help protect customers by putting as much space as possible between potential disk failures and having to bring service down to restore. In reality, R6 with VM replica to other host is looking good and meets our needs.
@scottalanmiller Yes, I fully understand re the price, but as a rough guide as to if its a reasonable quote. I've not purchased a Porsche before. If I were told its going to cost me £700k by a dealer and 'its a great deal'... i'd only know by checking what others paid and online rather than the 'list price'. As said, I have spent most time using them, not buying... so a rough guide that the cost is pretty decent would be helpful 
But understandable if nobody is from the UK/London to say
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Planning how to propose.
I am assuming you mean to somebody for marriage? If so, congratulations!
Thank you. Yes, indeed. Currently planning for around June/July to pop the question
If I were ever 'IT Director' or something, i'd expect to have lots of remote 'IT Managers' reporting to me worldwide, each with a team of Techies under them... If I were ever called that, but only a sysadmin... yep, i'd lie and call myself sysadmin on resume... otherwise its a lie.
@Dashrender said in Dell Quote... good price?:
I don't have any specs, You might call dell and ask if they have a Whitepaper on the drive.
So, Dell has said the drive is supported for 970 GB writes per day and 2.1 TB read per day. So that covers my needs quite easily. So, at 1.8 TB/day, we are fine. 140GB/drive/day is way less then 970 GB/drive/day.
Looks like raid6 will be fine for us.
@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 Inbetweeners is a funny show. I saw James Buckley a couple years ago at a Red Robin in Ventura County, CA. Very weird to see him there.
Good luck on the dinner with your future father-in-law.
Class program. Don't think they have a bad episode. Seen all series?
Thanks dude, I'm sure it'll go fine anyhow.
Yes, I have. I also have seen at least the first movie. I can't remember if I have seen the second.
The second film was the only slightly poor part for me, nowhere close to as good as the series or first film.
Is the US Inbetweeners any good? Haven't seen it...
I don't think I saw the US version. Looks like it only went 12 episodes in 2012 and was cancelled.
Didn't know that. Probably just different culture and the humor didn't quite translate. I don't think I know a single person this side of the pond that doesn't like the UK one.
Watching Big Bang Theory now whilst finishing a beer, that's a decent program too.
Very interesting video. I see such corruption all over the place too. Not just non-profit, but charities too... it is such a shame.
I know one charity where a member on the board of directors for the charity also owns an MSP. That board use his MSP as the 'IT Company' for the charity. The board will never change that, and yes, his MSP charges far more for work at the charity than to normal business. As he is 'in power', it wont change - and the work they do is usually below standard.
IMO... its a mess and needs to be standardised. Management need to decide on a workable structure.
Trying to keep cool! Too hot for me in London.
@scottalanmiller said in Resume Critique:
@jimmy9008 said in Resume Critique:
@scottalanmiller said in Resume Critique:
And, like I said, if "abject failure" propositions are being considered, why not add in some even crazier ones - enough to inflate the success number to whatever you want? There is always someone willing to quote you any insanity in the hopes that someone is so clueless as to the think that the more that you spend, the better the deal. Someone will quote thirty, or even one hundred servers. And a few SANs to go with it. And networking gear. And fibre channel switches. And so forth. With that many servers, it would be easy to get quotes showing a savings in the millions. I mean truly trivial.
The number is trivial. Of course. I'm saying it's the fact that you prevented the f*** up that's important.
Right, and I'm saying two things....
- Don't put opinion numbers. If you dont' think it is important, why is it getting space on the CV?
- Don't use "abject failure" as a mark of success. That you HAD to prevent a problem like that is not something that you should be mentioning. No amount of mitigating a failure of that magnitude will look impressive - that's the taxi / wall problem.
Number 2 is wrong IMO. Saying you are able to stop a project and change it to stop failure is extremely important.
So, we should assume all companies only ever make the correct decision and an IT employee never has to use their competence to steep a company in the correct direction, or discuss that they prevented the failure entirely, in SAM land? Crazy.
This is what I expected but since I am not at that level wanted to check. I'm about 1/3 of the numbers he was throwing around, which I guess is why he was doing that, to try to entice you with the larger numbers. Cheers for confirming what I thought though, its always good to check and have access to a forum like this. Cheers.
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting to hear if i'm going to be offered a contact for a position I have been interviewing for.
Good Luck!
Thanks, all out of my hands now. Just a waiting game.
