What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller Did a 30 day demo of Exablox about 6 months ago. Was NOT impressed. Very slow throughput, management was I would call it sub-par at best. Was looking to use as a file share (NAS) and backup target, either primary backup storage or secondary. Now, admittedly, they did release their newer boxes about 2 months after our demo so may be worth a second look.
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@jt1001001 said:
@scottalanmiller Did a 30 day demo of Exablox about 6 months ago. Was NOT impressed. Very slow throughput, management was I would call it sub-par at best. Was looking to use as a file share (NAS) and backup target, either primary backup storage or secondary. Now, admittedly, they did release their newer boxes about 2 months after our demo so may be worth a second look.
I used one on first release. Performance was supposed to be a big thing with the latest updated gear. Looking forward to having one in the lab. It will be our primary storage once in place.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I think at this point when we hit the datacenter we are looking at a baker's dozen lab servers. 6x Scale, 3x Dells, 3x HP Proliants and one Sparc that we have not bought yet but I am determined to get. Then at least four storage systems on top of that (Synology, ReadyNAS, Drobo and, we are told, an Exablox.)
Still considering making your test lab available outside NTG?
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So this is a thing now.
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If ketchup comes from tomatoes, does mayonnaise come from French fries?
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No, they have their own brand. All of McDonald's food is supplied by Golden State Foods, which I think is just a brand under McDonald's.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
lol. Today they have it easy. They use Scale Computing in a new primary DC with a UPS, 25kw generator for extended outages, and multiple paths back to campus network.
Much better approach. That Scale does this so well is a great example of how powerful the SAN-less approach is. Scale does this wonderfully.
In other news, we just learned that we are getting three more Scale nodes!! So excited.
Holy cow! what are they going to be running out of your DC?
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@coliver said:
I thought McDonalds just used Heinz products?
If you would have asked me I would have guessed that too, but that was Burger King. I should have realized because when I think about it, McD's tastes better than Heinz. Once I lived abroad I know realize that everything tastes better than Heinz.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
lol. Today they have it easy. They use Scale Computing in a new primary DC with a UPS, 25kw generator for extended outages, and multiple paths back to campus network.
Much better approach. That Scale does this so well is a great example of how powerful the SAN-less approach is. Scale does this wonderfully.
In other news, we just learned that we are getting three more Scale nodes!! So excited.
Holy cow! what are they going to be running out of your DC?
Yeah, space is going to be an issue very quickly.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
I thought McDonalds just used Heinz products?
If you would have asked me I would have guessed that too, but that was Burger King. I should have realized because when I think about it, McD's tastes better than Heinz. Once I lived abroad I know realize that everything tastes better than Heinz.
Eh, never been a big fan of ketchup... mustard on the other hand, as long as it is anything but yellow.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
lol. Today they have it easy. They use Scale Computing in a new primary DC with a UPS, 25kw generator for extended outages, and multiple paths back to campus network.
Much better approach. That Scale does this so well is a great example of how powerful the SAN-less approach is. Scale does this wonderfully.
In other news, we just learned that we are getting three more Scale nodes!! So excited.
Holy cow! You guys aren't going to have any room in your Rack for VMware stuff if they keep this up, ha ha ha!
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Just spied this on SW:
I'll pass...
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Trying to get one of these things working. What a piece of crap. Every time it reboots all of the settings are different. There are no configuration options and nothing is clear on it - except that it doesn't work.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Trying to get one of these things working. What a piece of crap. Every time it reboots all of the settings are different. There are no configuration options and nothing is clear on it - except that it doesn't work.
Is this somemthing you have used before and carried with you, or was it there for you to use..
But extenders are junk..
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@gjacobse said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Trying to get one of these things working. What a piece of crap. Every time it reboots all of the settings are different. There are no configuration options and nothing is clear on it - except that it doesn't work.
Is this somemthing you have used before and carried with you, or was it there for you to use..
But extenders are junk..
Part of the house.
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I'm surprised how often this comes up. Are there really so many people that have RAID and servers but are not aware of what to do when a drive fails? I mean, maybe no one teaches this stuff but it seems so ridiculously obvious that when the drive fails you replace it ASAP. I mean, what do they think that the RAID is for or is doing? This is an honest question, don't mean to berate the person in question as this comes up quite often. Clearly there is a gap in training somewhere because this requires zero technical knowledge. It's like "when do you replace a tire"... um, the moment that the original one blows.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1381551-raid-5-failure-on-logical-drive-what-to-do
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@scottalanmiller said:
I'm surprised how often this comes up. Are there really so many people that have RAID and servers but are not aware of what to do when a drive fails? I mean, maybe no one teaches this stuff but it seems so ridiculously obvious that when the drive fails you replace it ASAP. I mean, what do they think that the RAID is for or is doing? This is an honest question, don't mean to berate the person in question as this comes up quite often. Clearly there is a gap in training somewhere because this requires zero technical knowledge. It's like "when do you replace a tire"... um, the moment that the original one blows.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1381551-raid-5-failure-on-logical-drive-what-to-do
My question is always: how. Perhaps it has just been my luck, but I have had multiple DELL servers fry when hotplugging. But I know it's also more dangerous to shut them down and reboot.
BACKUPS BACKUPS BACKUPS.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I'm surprised how often this comes up. Are there really so many people that have RAID and servers but are not aware of what to do when a drive fails? I mean, maybe no one teaches this stuff but it seems so ridiculously obvious that when the drive fails you replace it ASAP. I mean, what do they think that the RAID is for or is doing? This is an honest question, don't mean to berate the person in question as this comes up quite often. Clearly there is a gap in training somewhere because this requires zero technical knowledge. It's like "when do you replace a tire"... um, the moment that the original one blows.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1381551-raid-5-failure-on-logical-drive-what-to-do
I think it's more than lack of training, I think it's lack of common sense. We're slowly heading towards idiocracy. "Welcome to Costco, I love you".
