What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Since it's a test box, why not just purchase a SSD or two, unless you need a ton of storage for testing?
Our customer DBs are freaking huge, so much storage is needed. Besides a DC and Exchange server, most will be dev systems w/ big SQL databases. Besides, I want to have a badass test box for later.
Well in that case, you definitely can't buy anything until you know the IOPs of the SQL box that uses the most IOPs so you have at least that many when testing that box and keep things at the same level.
The heaviest usage SQL boxes will be the last things to get virtualized, I don't want to hear the bitching and moaning that will happen if 5ms of latency suddenly appeared.
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OK switch gears - you are calling it a DAS - I'm curious when does DAS become SAN?
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Since it's a test box, why not just purchase a SSD or two, unless you need a ton of storage for testing?
Our customer DBs are freaking huge, so much storage is needed. Besides a DC and Exchange server, most will be dev systems w/ big SQL databases. Besides, I want to have a badass test box for later.
Well in that case, you definitely can't buy anything until you know the IOPs of the SQL box that uses the most IOPs so you have at least that many when testing that box and keep things at the same level.
The heaviest usage SQL boxes will be the last things to get virtualized, I don't want to hear the bitching and moaning that will happen if 5ms of latency suddenly appeared.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=20163
edit: oops, old link - new link below
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DiskSpd-a-robust-storage-6cd2f223
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
OK switch gears - you are calling it a DAS - I'm curious when does DAS become SAN?
When it is networked.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
OK switch gears - you are calling it a DAS - I'm curious when does DAS become SAN?
When you use iSCSI and a network to get to it. These are directly connected, 12GB/s SAS cables, full tilt rock and roll. Only IP address is for the management interface.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
OK switch gears - you are calling it a DAS - I'm curious when does DAS become SAN?
When it is networked.
If fiberchannel considered a network?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
OK switch gears - you are calling it a DAS - I'm curious when does DAS become SAN?
When it is networked.
If fiberchannel considered a network?
FC is a protocol. FC is DAS if it is direct, networked if there is a network.
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DAS = Direct Attached Storage (e.g. no switch)
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SAS, SATA, USB, IEEE1394, FC, FCoE, ATAoE, ZSAN.... none of them are DAS or SAN. All block protocols are both. DAS v SAN is how you use it.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
DAS = Direct Attached Storage (e.g. no switch)
SAN = Storage Area Network (e.g. there is a switch)You left out NAS.
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I'm rejoining in the fact that I solved the non booting P2V 2003 R2 server.
I put the details into my main thread... but anyone just reading here - I ran chkdsk /f many times. after each try I ran fixboot/fixmbr from the 2003R2 install ISO.
It eventually fixed the MFT as needed and was able to boot!
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@scottalanmiller No thanks, I'm good.
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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You still on vacation?
You know he's retired, right?
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@scottalanmiller So, are you posting this because something happened while you were traveling? Suddenly, a wild lice appeared in Liesl's hair? Maybe that AirBnB wasn't such a great idea? Cleanliness is on par with their attitude regarding WEP?
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller So, are you posting this because something happened while you were traveling? Suddenly, a wild lice appeared in Liesl's hair? Maybe that AirBnB wasn't such a great idea? Cleanliness is on par with their attitude regarding WEP?
Why you gotta be hating on WEP? I like having free WIFI.
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Mini hail.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller So, are you posting this because something happened while you were traveling? Suddenly, a wild lice appeared in Liesl's hair? Maybe that AirBnB wasn't such a great idea? Cleanliness is on par with their attitude regarding WEP?
Why you gotta be hating on WEP? I like having free WIFI.
When someone claims to be a security guy for a company and the guest wifi is on WEP on a flat network....
Noodle scratcher there....
