The I must start looking for other places because everything I've ever been at wants / seems to want IT to do everything (or just about everything possible) so that the user / salesperson / accountant etc etc can "do their jobs"

@scottalanmiller True, but by not having and applying said soft skills it becomes "Well I asked IT and they refused to help"

Which doesn't get anything done, because management expects IT to help whenever applicable.

Soft skills are absolutely something that will be learned from personal experience. It shouldn't be required that an adult, who pays taxes, cooks food, drives, has kdis etc needs to have their hand held for simple tasks like connecting power.

Not really as the talent is simply going to have to learn more meaningful skills. Rather than how to troubleshoot some kids wireless issues IE Is the wireless switch turned off?

While I'm at it I'll just wirelessly charge your laptop battery.... and change the oil on your car.

And the kicker, I connect and the user has 10% power, can't find her charger, or the installation media for her new wireless printer.

Which she wants me to setup for her

The guys that get to improve everything else, like server performance, or our virtualization platforms etc.

I shouldn't have to tell a user how to connect to the VPN every time.

How come my users never understand the simple things, like how to connect to the VPN. Launch the application, click connect, enter your password.

Or "can you open the remote support tool, teamviewer?" and the response I get is "What's Teamviewer"

Now granted we have alternative ways to get to their machine when they aren't on site but come on....

@johnhooks 08 Scion XB with a little over 90K

If you explain clearly what the monitor is for, and what it can't do to your client they should never blame you for it.

have you had similar experiences with this client?

Writing instructional guides for my counter parts / non-it support who is globally away

Just to put it into the conversation here, Microsoft has a tool to convert your ESXi VM's to Hyper-V.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Gg610672.aspx

Now I haven't used it, but it's at least looking into if you must V2V your VM's.

Are you at least able to run in LiveCD mode and get to a terminal?

If so what does " fdisk -l " show?

TL:DR can you summarize it?

What are containers in 50 words or less.

Odds are your live CD is corrupted.

Download a clean copy and try the install again.

Brand new server with $15000 dollars worth of PCI SSD's for only $6000 at AJ's.

Price match it Best Buy, plus I want 15% off of that.

I'm up for Crazy AJ's

Dreading the drive home right now its down pouring here in NY.

I can't even see to the end of the business parking lot.....

Yeah I know....

Pennywise pound foolish..

Oh I know what it doesn't include the cost of the SAN...

haha there's the other $20,000