Burned by Eschewing Best Practices
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@dafyre said:
Maybe he's one of the few that recognizes the folks commenting are not out to attack him, but help him... and for free!
Seems that way. It was a tough start too, with him being pretty upset and venting in the OP. But immediately he went rational, explained the hows and whys and stuff and is really looking for good feedback.
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I guess that thread shows the quality of IT staff you get when you pay them a non-profit company IT wage... incompetent with a chance of irrational. Talk about "take whatever you can get". Hope he keeps his head out of his ass after SW fixes what he broke (for free).
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@RojoLoco He's had a chance to cool off a bit after he gets some food in him, lol. He's doing things the "way he's always done them" -- and that's not a bad thing (Best practices aside), because it always works...until it doesn't.
At best, he learns a bit from Scott about RAID 1, RAID 10, and virtualization. At worst, he just stays frustrated and keeps digging himself deeper.
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Well he's getting his RAID 10 Array built now, and should report back soon. I'm steering him to XenServer. If other want to stir him in other directions go ahead.
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He's doing great.
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@scottalanmiller Hopefully he has an actual RAID card.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@scottalanmiller Hopefully he has an actual RAID card.
Hopefully (if he does) the drives are actually connected to it, and not the motherboard....
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@scottalanmiller Thats a shame.
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It's a Lenovo Thinkserver TD350
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And... it's FakeRAID.
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He could still use software raid, couldn't he?
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I use mdadm with our kvm vm hosts, I haven't used xenserver but I would think mdadm would also be a possibility for him
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@Romo said:
He could still use software raid, couldn't he?
That's what we are preparing to walk him through now. With XenServer that's a bit of a learning curve, though. Not going to be run.
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@Romo said:
I use mdadm with our kvm vm hosts, I haven't used xenserver but I would think mdadm would also be a possibility for him
Yes, works the same. But for someone who is new to Linux this will be a shock to his system.
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This guy is in for a tough time. No AD for 40 machines..
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1274733-40-workgroup-pc-s
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@scottalanmiller said:
This guy is in for a tough time. No AD for 40 machines..
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1274733-40-workgroup-pc-s
...and all are home versions, some Vista.... ewwwww
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Yeah, it is going to be tough. No AD with forty machines. Not fun. But I've seen way bigger without AD, it's not that bad. I'd rather AD, of course. But you can do a lot without it.
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That's a lot of PCs to have no Active Directory. Going to need to do ridiculous things like having common admin passwords or using Keepass and storing tons of passwords.
