New IT manager making changes... should I be concern?
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@stess said in New IT manager making changes... should I be concern?:
Definitely I am against paying labor to service provider/contractor, unless the changes involve more than hardware/software infrastructure like building moves or office moves. Where do you draw the line when service provider should step in for assistant/consultant?
That depends on skill levels. What is the internal skill level, and how long will it take internal resources to perform a task? Versus how long will it take a skilled consultant that does it every day? Your labor is not free. Every minute that you are spending doing some one off job that a consultant could have done faster is a waste of company resources.
Now obviously, it is not just black and white hours versus hours. Because hiring a consultant requires overhead. Your time to find one, hire one, explain the task, confirm the bid, etc. But very often it is still going to be cheaper to outsource one off projects.
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@JaredBusch said in New IT manager making changes... should I be concern?:
@stess said in New IT manager making changes... should I be concern?:
Definitely I am against paying labor to service provider/contractor, unless the changes involve more than hardware/software infrastructure like building moves or office moves. Where do you draw the line when service provider should step in for assistant/consultant?
That depends on skill levels. What is the internal skill level, and how long will it take internal resources to perform a task? Versus how long will it take a skilled consultant that does it every day? Your labor is not free. Every minute that you are spending doing some one off job that a consultant could have done faster is a waste of company resources.
I agree with this, but I have known and seen many business owners and managers insist on "doing it in house" regardless of how long it would take or effort involved to find a consultant to do it.
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I am a big fan of doing stuff "in house" -- especially when A) the IT team has the internal resources and skill set to be able to configure a product correctly and securely, and mainly B) The internal IT team can make the time to do the project.
Obviously there are times when IT is just plain too busy, or a project is too critical and needs to be done two weeks ago... those times it makes sense to have outside help doing stuff.
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@stess said in New IT manager making changes... should I be concern?:
@scottalanmiller said in New IT manager making changes... should I be concern?:
Your big challenge here, if you decide to pursue a counter to these recommendations, will be in properly assessing business need (if you feel that his designs are not in the best interest of the company then you should, in theory, be able to not just put that into words but be able to put it into numbers) and then communicating that effectively to the powers that be. This is where the average IT person fails hard - IT tends to attract people who struggle to be able to quantify, qualify and communicate IT in business terms. Maybe you are not one of these people, but if you work in IT the chances are extremely high that this is an area where you feel a particular challenge.
Thanks for the insight. I'll gather more information before making any decisions. These changes are estimated to take 6-8 months at least. I got time.
I will look at the link you posted and make a better judgmental decision. I am 110% against SAN and know there are alternatives that could deliver results with fraction of the cost. *cough starwind virtual SAN *coughI'll see if I can have a quick talk with the management to give my input about all these changes. Obviously I am not going in empty hands.
yeah we can do that! one thing to note: there are many ways to skin a cat (and hang a dog) so you may go SAN or SAN-less route and ether route will split into myriad of options! on your place I'd allow to pick up from at least 3 possible ones. imho
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As for the SAN-less solutions out there you can look at StarWind Hyper-Converged Appliance in case you are looking for something that is very easy to implement and will easily work with any hypervisor.
Another option that you may want to explore is VMware vSAN, that one will be good if you would like to stick to VMware and you are fine with having one node as a witness.
S2D is also an option that is worth your attention, that option should fit well if you would want to stick with Hyper-V as hypervisor and you have multiple VMs licensed with Microsoft Windows.
