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Just walked the dogs. Calling it a night here.

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Had one coffee this morning.
Results are inconclusive, require a second cup.

Better safe than sorry.

ElasticSearch is no longer open. I won't touch them. Look at OpenSearch now instead.

Dinner time on the beach.

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@jimmy9008 said in Deploying firmware updates on servers and testing...:

My thoughts are that we cannot know if a server will develop an issue from a patch before doing the patch. But, they want a plan to know which to avoid.

You are correct. Unless you can identify what caused the issue you don't have anything to go on. How will you identify the issue unless you risk several more machines... probably more machines that you have in your total fleet?

Ask them how they expect you to determine something of this nature? If they aren't providing you with the proper testing equipment and timeline (which would be insane, this could easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars) where do they expect you to produce this information from? You don't even know what you are looking for. Even if you get lucky and guess what it is, it's just a guess and you have no confidence in predicting if it will work or not.

@jimmy9008 said in Deploying firmware updates on servers and testing...:

Management are asking us to identify which of these servers, as we have many remaining to patch, will develop an issue following patching such as a flapping problem, so they can be done at a different time to lower the impact of an outage.

While that sounds good, the answer is... there is no way for you to know. If there was, you'd have known already. Software is crazy complex and without a massive testing fleet you can't even make an educated guess. Even if they gave you thousands of servers and loads of testing resources, you'd still just be likely to get a reasonable degree of certainty.

@mlnews time to move to Steam Index for sure!

@hobbit666 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

@eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

what would be my best vendor? Prefer someone online.

You'll get a few different views on this as everyone will have their "preferred" manufacturer of switches.
Like Edgeswitch, Unifi, TP-Link, Netgear etc etc

Personally I've been getting a few TP-Link Jetstream range, they have a central management solution.
But also like Dell for our main infrastructure, only had to phone them maybe 2 times in the last 6 odd years and support and always been quick and polite.

I THINK he means the reseller. As much as we all want him to deploy anything but Cisco, it's a customer requirement. Assuming that that was true, it's the VAR, not the vendor, that he meant to ask for (the vendor rep.)

@eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

As someone who only purchases this type of gear once in a blue moon what would be my best vendor? Prefer someone online.

Hit up DCW. Ask for Yonay, Ami, or Mike.

https://datacenterwarehouse.com/