Burned by Eschewing Best Practices
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
So glad that I didn't have to say it.
I don't mean to be a dick... but he's been "studying" virtualization for 5 years! He never once came across KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, or Esxi Free? That doesn't compute.
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@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
So glad that I didn't have to say it.
I don't mean to be a dick... but he's been "studying" virtualization for 5 years! He never once came across KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, or Esxi Free? That doesn't compute.
Yeah, something is seriously wrong.
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@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
So glad that I didn't have to say it.
I don't mean to be a dick... but he's been "studying" virtualization for 5 years! He never once came across KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, or Esxi Free? That doesn't compute.
Was he studying the VMWare sales materials?
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@RojoLoco said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
So glad that I didn't have to say it.
I don't mean to be a dick... but he's been "studying" virtualization for 5 years! He never once came across KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, or Esxi Free? That doesn't compute.
Was he studying the VMWare sales materials?
That would be my guess? But even the VMWare sales material has references to Hyper-V and Xen.
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@RojoLoco said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
So glad that I didn't have to say it.
I don't mean to be a dick... but he's been "studying" virtualization for 5 years! He never once came across KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, or Esxi Free? That doesn't compute.
Was he studying the VMWare sales materials?
Studying might have meant "asking a salesman from time to time".
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It looks like a lot of that topic was gutted by some moderator.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
It looks like a lot of that topic was gutted by some moderator.
Oh really? Nothing of mine, I didn't get any notifications.
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@scottalanmiller the topic only has a handful of replies now. Based on this conversation I assume it was several pages.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller the topic only has a handful of replies now. Based on this conversation I assume it was several pages.
Wasn't super long.
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FreeNAS users of the world: https://mangolassi.it/topic/13358/freenas-10-has-been-recalled
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Used quadi-FakeRAID (quasi because they are mostly public about the fact that it's not RAID hardware.) PERC S100
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1986929-perc-s100-rebuild-issue
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@scottalanmiller Being fakeraid1 I wonder if he can even take one of the drives and access the data just to get his data back.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller Being fakeraid1 I wonder if he can even take one of the drives and access the data just to get his data back.
Probably with the right tools.
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Why isn't it virtual? Because it is physical. Um... really? I think someone is in over their heads, and this is a consultant?
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People keep upvoting a post I made on spiceworks from 2013... no idea why.
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@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
People keep upvoting a post I made on spiceworks from 2013... no idea why.
Which one?
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
People keep upvoting a post I made on spiceworks from 2013... no idea why.
Which one?
It's not very often but every month or so someone adds a spice to it. Looking at it now there is only 8 spice ups... but I know there were more in the past.
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Maybe someone has been removing them?
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That guys seems to be receptive, at least. But I agree, he's in over his head and not really understanding how he is currently making decisions.
