What's Your Current Project?
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Oh very nice. I like the walkway.
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On Friday I wrapped up coding/testing on some new scripts for our shop floor production reporting system. It uses this proprietary language with a dialect similar to VB. One of my primary tasks was to modify our PO Receiving process so it utilizes ASN data from EDI-enabled vendors. Now, rather than operators having to type/scan details off the paperwork (and inevitably making mistakes), I coded it to automatically key the entire transaction based on an ID # that's scanned off our vendor's inventory barcode label. The operator's new procedure (at least for vendors we're receiving ASNs from) is to simply scan the barcode label, verify the data on the screen, our inventory label prints, and the transaction done. Should be very slick. I also did a number of workflow improvements based on feedback from the operators on the shop floor. All of this will roll out Tuesday morning. I did an overly cautious amount of testing so it should go well (knock on wood)
Also on Friday I received approval for a new phone system so I will be getting the ball rolling on that next week. We're going with Switchvox (commercial Asterisk system from Digium.) 50 handsets across the office and manufacturing plant. This will yield us about $1,000/month in immediate savings thanks to conversion from PRI to SIP trunking, elimination of backup analog lines for the PRI (because it randomly drops calls due to the poor quality of our underground copper lines which Ma Bell refuses to replace), and elimination of our third-party conferencing service. Should also be a fun project. I can't wait to get rid of our old Nortel BCM 400. This project will fully utilize last summer's project where we ran fibre backhauls from all the key points in our facility to the server room (eliminated all the daisy chaining between switches on Cat5), put new managed switches in all the locations, a new core switch, and implemented VLANs.
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Doing more work with Chef today. Got three new Chef books in the weekend Chef sale too!
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@Dashrender said:
Current projects:
Deploy new DL380 G8 with ESXi 5.5 u1
Migrate VMs from old host
Migrate from Server 2003 R2 to 2012 R2and replace 40 workstations running XP with win7 and win 8.1
Any more info on this project? Want to know how you are getting on, did you put anything online for geeks like me to read?
Love VMware stuff, and love hearing how virtualisation projects are coming along.
Thanks,
G.
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Not much to read really, Plus I've never been a blogger.
But to answer your questions:
The new server is deployed with ESXi 5.5 u1, it currently has 2 VMs on it -
Win 2012R2 (AD, DNS, DHCP, Printers, File shares) I've migrated our primary network share to this machine with little issue, soon need to migrate the homedirs.
I'm having an issue with my printers though. The printers that can print double sided Do and I can't seem to change the default to single sided - work in progress.
Win 2012R2 test VMI've deployed about 15 of the new computers so far. Images created using Clonezilla/sysprep. I did spend about 3 weeks creating GPOs that would remove local admin rights, while at the same time allowing ActiveX controls to be installed by websites we trust. Also learning how to deploy printers via GPO (man that really slows down login times!).
Since I'm a one man shop I'm lucky if I get to spend 50% of my time working on this project so it's slow and steady...
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well let's see the joys of being a home owner, next week having the electrical panel upgraded to new breakers and 200 amp service (currently on push lock breakers and 100 amp) and this year looking at having to replace the 10 year old roof because the former home owner was a cheap sob. So cheap that the starter row was put on incorrectly, no ice and water shield and so on so when the snow melted we had water coming in through the windows. Oh and to top it off we have to replace the biggest window the in house that is going to cost $3,000. Oh joy. edit forgot to add that we have lived in the house for just over a year now.
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We tried to do a small project in our Texas house once. They found an electrical problem that resulted in the entire house being required for $10K
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@scottalanmiller said:
We tried to do a small project in our Texas house once. They found an electrical problem that resulted in the entire house being required for $10K
ouch, i'm hoping that doesn't happen when we upgrade ours. I'm hoping the inspector just looks at the replacement work and not the entire system.
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Ouch that sucks for both of you!
Why do you need a 200 amp circuit? I think the default service around here is 100 or 120 amps. I've installed my own 60 amp sub panel in the garage - I can now do nearly anything I want out there, welding, vacumforming, etc.
I've run new power lines and installed the bathroom in my basement all myself (OK some help from a non professional friend), From what we can find it's all in code and has been working great!
Nice thing about where I live - as long as I do the work myself (non professional) I don't need permits for non structural things. -
@Dashrender said:
Ouch that sucks for both of you!
Why do you need a 200 amp circuit? I think the default service around here is 100 or 120 amps. I've installed my own 60 amp sub panel in the garage - I can now do nearly anything I want out there, welding, vacumforming, etc.
I've run new power lines and installed the bathroom in my basement all myself (OK some help from a non professional friend), From what we can find it's all in code and has been working great!
Nice thing about where I live - as long as I do the work myself (non professional) I don't need permits for non structural things.I can run normal electrical (re-wiring switches, parsing off rooms to different circuits) all day long, however since they are replacing the entire panel and exterior pole up to the feeder line drop, i am going to let the pro's do it. As for why I am needing this, current estimated usage is right around 90amps, electric oven/cooktop, dryer, a/c. Plus my box is maxed out so no room for expansion which we want to do in a few years as well as the former home owner tripled tapped 1 of the 2 220v 40am breakers with the a/c, dryer and someone pulled a 110v leg off of that. So last summer I had to shut down my a/c at night just to do laundry so i didn't risk a fire. That wasn't fun at all. The cost to have a master electrician come in and replace/upgrade the panel to the newer switch style isn't bad, 100 amps was $1350, 200 amps is $1550. For a difference of $200 i would be stupid not to upgrade.
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While the costs for installation might not be bad - here in Omaha, a 200 amp circuit has a higher per watt charge than the lower 100-120 amp one.
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@Dashrender i am willing to pay a little more from here on out than risk having an electrical fire in my house.
edit: according to the documentation i can find from our energies provider, there is no difference in rates between 100 and 200 amp service, the price change comes into effect if you need 3 phase power. -
@david.wiese said:
@Dashrender i am willing to pay a little more from here on out than risk having an electrical fire in my house.
edit: according to the documentation i can find from our energies provider, there is no difference in rates between 100 and 200 amp service, the price change comes into effect if you need 3 phase power.Great news for you! (sincere)
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@Dashrender Hi, sorry for the delay.
How are you deploying your printers through GP? Should really be doing it by computer not user for most setups, because it is based on their geopgraphical location moreso, than the user (normally)
I am not a blogger either, find it hard to do that kind of thing.
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My project today is to get my i7 Mac Mini backup and running for nested ESXi installs using AutoLab to create my lab. Hopefully should be ok.
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@Gabi said:
@Dashrender Hi, sorry for the delay.
How are you deploying your printers through GP? Should really be doing it by computer not user for most setups, because it is based on their geopgraphical location moreso, than the user (normally)
I am not a blogger either, find it hard to do that kind of thing.
Nope, can't do it at the machine level because most of my machines are laptops (65%). It's more dependent on their location.
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@Dashrender said:
@Gabi said:
@Dashrender Hi, sorry for the delay.
How are you deploying your printers through GP? Should really be doing it by computer not user for most setups, because it is based on their geopgraphical location moreso, than the user (normally)
I am not a blogger either, find it hard to do that kind of thing.
Nope, can't do it at the machine level because most of my machines are laptops (65%). It's more dependent on their location.
How did you get on in the end, did you find a solution?
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Doing application management automation tonight.
