Topics regarding Inverted Pyramids Of Doom
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@travisdh1 said:
@DustinB3403 said:
This seems like another one, but with enterprise grade hardware...
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1392732-w00t-excited-for-this-project?source=homepage-feed
Apparently we're all to mean for the Spiceworks community? Thread not found now.
It was taken down almost immediately. After the first questions about it the OP was too embarrassed by it. He got his info wrong then his exciting project turned out to be an embarrassing mistake. He started off okay and we were like "awesome, good job, good thing you didn't do.... the thing he actually did but had misstated because he didn't know the terms he was using."
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So this golf shop wants to virtualize and needs to figure out storage for their 2 host setup...
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@DustinB3403 said:
So this golf shop wants to virtualize and needs to figure out storage for their 2 host setup...
A golf shop has a 2 host setup? Damn are they really a golf empire?
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@DustinB3403 said:
So this golf shop wants to virtualize and needs to figure out storage for their 2 host setup...
And someone instantly recommends a SAN. Haha. The OP also wants to use RAID 5... did they not do any research before coming up with this?
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Did you see RAID 5E!!! The worst RAID idea that there has ever been. So much worse than regularly RAID 5. Where do these ideas come from?
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Sometimes I feel like I'm reliving ground-hog day over and over again....
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Groundhog Forum?
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@coliver said:
@DustinB3403 said:
So this golf shop wants to virtualize and needs to figure out storage for their 2 host setup...
And someone instantly recommends a SAN. Haha. The OP also wants to use RAID 5... did they not do any research before coming up with this?
They think they did, but they clearly didn't bump into the known problems articles when choosing RAID 5 - I didn't even think RAID 5E was real - apparently it was just killed before I started working on servers.
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@coliver Had that happen in my lab SPa failover to SPb... not so much......
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@Dashrender said:
They think they did, but they clearly didn't bump into the known problems articles when choosing RAID 5 - I didn't even think RAID 5E was real - apparently it was just killed before I started working on servers.
Yeah, they have a "requirement" that doesn't even exist in a product. How the heck are they looking at all of those products which don't even offer that. Then NetApp's rep from SW pops in and says that the OP "did his homework" ignoring the fact that his own requirements are nonsensical, impossible and specifically rule out the product that she is there to sell.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
They think they did, but they clearly didn't bump into the known problems articles when choosing RAID 5 - I didn't even think RAID 5E was real - apparently it was just killed before I started working on servers.
Yeah, they have a "requirement" that doesn't even exist in a product. How the heck are they looking at all of those products which don't even offer that. Then NetApp's rep from SW pops in and says that the OP "did his homework" ignoring the fact that his own requirements are nonsensical, impossible and specifically rule out the product that she is there to sell.
that Netapp person though, as you've educated me, isn't real - they are just some chickity who is there to respond with kind words and make people feel good about their posts.
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True, but isn't doing a good job of promoting the product, especially when NetApp has a reputation for being out of touch and inept already. Just adding to it by posting nonsense.
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@scottalanmiller said:
True, but isn't doing a good job of promoting the product, especially when NetApp has a reputation for being out of touch and inept already. Just adding to it by posting nonsense.
Sounds like she's doing a great job then... at being totally inept.
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Speaking of which, I haven't seen Chelsea posting in forever. I wonder how many of those people just quit versus how many change their online identities in the community once they make big enough faux pas.
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Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
Hoping I can avoid it, but might be looking for another job soon. Wouldn't mind finding a place like that...... I may be becoming the creepy old widower tho.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
Really a thing. "Normal" businesses have little means to employ people with that mindset in any quantity so you tend not to see it. Businesses that do hire that tend to be full of it and little else, I would guess, so lots of them are in the same place. For example, they have a large number over there, whole departments that are mostly that way. It works fine if you have the structure and a workload that can easily use a constantly turning over, untrained and generally disinterested workforce. It's not that they aren't hard workers and not smart, its just that the business is of no interest to them. That's why most people over there literally don't know that they have a community, are unclear of their own product and are totally surprised at things like the conference when there are people there expecting them to be aware of who we all are.
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@travisdh1 said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Honestly, I bet they have a massive turnover rate just from their entry level staff getting married and not working any more. The "went to college to find a spouse, didn't, and am now just working an entry level job so that I can meet people and get married and stop working" demographic is strong and the general business-preparedness suggests that that is the common goal.
Is that really a thing? I've only met one person like that before.
Hoping I can avoid it, but might be looking for another job soon. Wouldn't mind finding a place like that...... I may be becoming the creepy old widower tho.
Well I know where you can find one and most of them are very nice and quite cute. UT is famous for being a collective of that. Not a school known outside of Texas and inside of Texas is only known for sports, not academics, so you can guess what kind of students they tend to collect. It's why UT is definitely a "don't hire" red flag on a resume for many people.
