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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      And... he wanted to put his backups on it, too.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
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        I can't see how that is at all logical. How did it come across to him that any of it made any sense at all?

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
          last edited by

          @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

          I can't see how that is at all logical. How did it come across to him that any of it made any sense at all?

          I think "Because Dell said so."

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

            @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

            I can't see how that is at all logical. How did it come across to him that any of it made any sense at all?

            I think "Because Dell said so."

            Oh well in that case, Dell also told me to cut off my left foot, because left feet stink more than right feet. Better do as they tell me...

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @DustinB3403
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              @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

              @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

              @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

              I can't see how that is at all logical. How did it come across to him that any of it made any sense at all?

              I think "Because Dell said so."

              Oh well in that case, Dell also told me to cut off my left foot, because left feet stink more than right feet. Better do as they tell me...

              You have more than one left foot and right foot?

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                Backups from another site. That part ended up being okay.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @JaredBusch
                  last edited by

                  @JaredBusch said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                  @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                  @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                  I can't see how that is at all logical. How did it come across to him that any of it made any sense at all?

                  I think "Because Dell said so."

                  Oh well in that case, Dell also told me to cut off my left foot, because left feet stink more than right feet. Better do as they tell me...

                  You have more than one left foot and right foot?

                  You'd think with the arguments some of these sales guys make...

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                  • nadnerBN
                    nadnerB @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                    Built an IPOD because he sales guy told him too. Then was told to split his RAID array in two, buy Starwind and use Starwind to combine the two RAID arrays (on the same controller) back again.

                    https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1980293-splitting-up-a-dell-scv2020-and-making-it-ha-with-starwind-vsan

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403
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                      Whoo nice and shiny Fujitsu IPOD being built.

                      FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX60 S3

                      FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2540 M2

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                      • travisdh1T
                        travisdh1 @DustinB3403
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                        @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                        Whoo nice and shiny Fujitsu IPOD being built.

                        FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX60 S3

                        FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2540 M2

                        Not only did they order an IPOD, they don't have anyone to set it up or maintain it.

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403
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                          And uninformed management wants to be IT. great, I'm stepping out of the conversation.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            Skipped virtualization... https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1984445-installing-windows-server-2008-r2-on-poweredge-r630

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              Here is one...

                              https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1984445-installing-windows-server-2008-r2-on-poweredge-r630

                              Lots of reasons not to go virtual, none are real of course. And it's pretty clear that their admin and decision maker aren't even sure what virtualization is!

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                And another... went inverted pyramid and their performance can't handle a PBX!

                                https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1984585-have-you-ever-virtualised-a-pbx-system-latency-headaches

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by scottalanmiller

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                                  So glad that I didn't have to say it.

                                  @momurda

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                                  • coliverC
                                    coliver @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

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                                    So glad that I didn't have to say it.

                                    @momurda

                                    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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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @coliver
                                      last edited by

                                      @coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                      0_1492184515109_Screenshot from 2017-04-14 17-40-49.png

                                      So glad that I didn't have to say it.

                                      @momurda

                                      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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                                      • RojoLocoR
                                        RojoLoco @coliver
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                                        @coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                        0_1492184515109_Screenshot from 2017-04-14 17-40-49.png

                                        So glad that I didn't have to say it.

                                        @momurda

                                        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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                                        • coliverC
                                          coliver @RojoLoco
                                          last edited by

                                          @RojoLoco said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                          @coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                          0_1492184515109_Screenshot from 2017-04-14 17-40-49.png

                                          So glad that I didn't have to say it.

                                          @momurda

                                          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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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @RojoLoco
                                            last edited by

                                            @RojoLoco said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                            @coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                            0_1492184515109_Screenshot from 2017-04-14 17-40-49.png

                                            So glad that I didn't have to say it.

                                            @momurda

                                            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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