Posts made by eneeldssi

Man, that would kill me. I'm about trying to help offer the best solution, and when I see someone leading someone off in the wrong direction, I feel a moral obligation to call out someone's shit.

If the people can't handle that, or don't want you to open your mouth, you shouldn't be there.

Not that I'm suggesting to hurt yourself financially - the world we live in tells us to make our money where we can, because if you don't someone else will swoop in and take what should have been yours... but damn, if they really don't want you to talk, why do they even have you there?

Thanks for the welcome guys.

Introduce myself...oh boy. I'm just your average, asked to fix all of life's problems, in charge of almost nothing but responsible for everything, run of the mill IT Director for a large construction company in Southern NJ. I got inherited when they bought another company I worked for, and ran some of their asphalt plants, heavy equipment and maintained them for years. Got tired of a particular 'boss' who was a scumbag, and decided to move over to IT since I went to school for it and did it as side work. They had a consultant who was an utter nitwit and would spend more time documenting problems than fixing them, so getting him booted wasn't actually all that hard.

That was in the beginning of 2012, and it's been all downhill ever since. Now I manage a geographically-massive division with dozens of field offices, mfg plants, responsibilities of everything from our megawatts of solar fields to assisting with technical projects on literally every aspect of our business. We're a pretty technically friendly company, so I get to do a lot of cool stuff, and learn and see the latest and greatest every day.

@wirestyle22

**** Dell!

This weekend if I get a chance (gonna be busy grading my back yard for a new garage and 12kw solar array I'm building), I'll cut together the LOOOOOOOOOONG line of deranged emails that went between myself, Dell, and my PCM rep. Some of them... well, I got pretty snarky in. Needless to say, those tool bags went running with their tails between their legs and in the end stopped responding.

Most of my problem is that I'd been out of IT for a while and deep in the heavy construction and asphalt manufacturing industry as a plant tech. Out there, when someone tries to smooth talk you and treats you like you're a sucker, you tell them to **** OFF and you get in their face about it. So I've been trying to tone it down a few notches now that I'm back in a slightly more civilized industry. But it's REALLY hard when you get down to business with 95% of people that work for Dell. They are literally asshat extraordinaires, second only to Lenovo asshat extraordinaires. My first account rep from Dell was seriously the only guy I ever got along with there (Travis Best), he was awesome and got promoted the next year, and it was all downhill from there from one dumbass to the next.

So yeah, we bought a R510 from Mike at xByte for a little over $4k, made it our 3rd esx host with 48TB of local storage instead of pointing it at the two eql arrays on the production rack. Moved UEB9 to it, and are in the process of moving the DR eql array to the production rack.

So, instead of spending $33k (really $11k after I flipped a shit at the quote me and my PCM rep were given from Dell and they backed it down and we did a deal registration) ((22,000 DOLLAR ****ING PRICE REDUCTION BY GETTING PISSED OVER ONLY ONE EMAIL?!??!?!?!?! WHAT THE ****!)) We ended up with an extra R610 host that I can now use to build our new infrastructure for a company split/merger/restructuring/etc that we're in process with, don't have 12TB of eql drives collecting dust on a shelf, got 48TB of backup storage, doubled backup speeds (R510 has much faster clocks and UEB is single threaded), and a bunch of other little bonuses.

All for a little over $4k. Don't know what I'd do without you guys like @scottalanmiller pushing us to think a little outside the box and not get pushed around by SAN/NAS/general vendors who have their bottom line as what's best for the customer.