@scottalanmiller said in Ideas for how to use new, free gear from HPE?:
It's obviously not a set of equipment meant to "improve" anyone's environment.
Speak for yourself. It would be very welcomed in my environment. With an extra chassis, 1TB of RAM per blade, and stack that baby out with 16 blades, probably can host another 500 or 600 VMs.
Hell, there's an option for this. If it's gonna be UAT, resell space on it. Stack it up, lease it out.
@Shuey said in Ideas for how to use new, free gear from HPE?:
Our two existing VMware hosts are a DL360e Gen8 (hosted at "site 1") and a DL360 G7 (hosted at "site 2"). Each server has 192GB of RAM, and each has one MSA60 DAS for the guest VM storage (12-bays: 10 @ 1TB 10K SAS drives, RAID10, two drives as spares). Site 1 hosts 20 guests and site 2 hosts 5 guests (so far anyway - we plan to add more guests to each host in the future).
Better density than I thought, and not ancient equipment.
Your current DAS could be re-purposed as storage with the blade system. You will need a riser card to get a SAS connector. They got a blade interface for Infiniband, but not one for SAS. You will need to talk to the rep to get the right part. Otherwise, pick up a SAN with a fibre interface, lucky for you they are universal. I mix and match stuff all the time.
Move the 360e over to site two as a backup host, or even a primary host. Use the blades as your new site one infrastructure. Or consolidate down to the single site and have site two come back to get data. But you will have a fallback host just in case one dies or needs to be worked on. Although you will still be SPOF with storage.
But, all that said, I see plenty of big problems. Power requirements will eat you alive on that. You will need to get some different plugs to even plug it in. You will need to figure out if your rack will even vent the heat out of that thing.
You might be buying into a very large infrastructure expenditure without any way to use it. Even if it's free.
@Shuey said in Ideas for how to use new, free gear from HPE?:
Why is HPE giving away this much in equipment, but the specs don't seem realistic? Two blade servers, but only TWO hard drives (total)?!
Because they are blades. It's for high density compute needs, not storage. The drives are there for booting the blade, and really overkill for that as well because of SD cards. Once Vmware is booted, it's really low resource.
We don't even have a SAN where I work
Buy one then. $5K for a MSA1040, connect with fibre channel, throw in some SSDs for databases and cheap 'n deep SAS drives for everything else. Maybe $10K total outlay.
And 64GB of RAM (total)!? Per blade wouldn't be bad, but based on the spec list, it looks like it will be 32GB per blade.
RAM is cheap, like, super duper cheap. Throw another $1K per blade to beef up your memory a bit.
Real question is, what is your workload look like and will you need expansion of an additional 14 blades in the future? Can your datacenter handle the power requirements? Will adding this add any redundancy over your probable kludge of a server room?
If you can't use it, I'll take it off your hands. I have some nice PURE Storage arrays that would love to have a new friend.
@jmaurelli said in Ideas for how to use new, free gear from HPE?:
I am not keen on putting that hardware in the production environment whatsoever! What happens if you lose you job? Or you find another? I say the new equipment is for training purposes. You also make it known somehow that the equipment belongs to you and are only "licensing" to your employer. It's a win-win. They host in their server room, you train, they reap the benefits of your experience.
Are you really that insecure with new equipment?
Dude, it's HP. There's nothing to it. Standard equipment used by hundreds of companies over the world. I just got a new HPE StoreOnce appliance. It was all of 10 minutes to configure, setup, and get integrated into Veeam's Backup.
Considering it's probably at least 5 generations newer than what's in OP's environment, it's wasted as a UAT environment. Other than needing to throw more RAM at it and a SAN, it's pretty kickass.
@JaredBusch said in Ideas for how to use new, free gear from HPE?:
While total over kill for the SMB, it is still perfectly good hardware.
Overkill for SMB?
We were using those in CaaS to host hundreds of machines per rack. Our TMRK infrastructure was on Cisco UCS hosting just as much.
This stuff is overkill for 99% of the market. If you need high density, like I do, then it's great.
I did notice that it includes the FC interfaces and switch, but not a SAN. Also very little RAM for what you would need for a high density blade system. So little for $60K worth of equipment.
@JaredBusch said in Health insurance plans:
@PSX_Defector said in Health insurance plans:
You are bitching about the ACA. You really need to be bitching about getting a new CPA who ain't leaving you to the wolves.
This is true and I will be speaking to a new one as my gross last year was just a fraction over $100k with an AGI listed as $98k last on my 1040.
I suspect I will be filing amended returns.
OK, quick math.
$100K gross is around $80K in a W2 return. Self employment knocks up about $20K in self taxes, be it FICA or income. Federal, ignoring state for the moment.
So yes, your CPA sucks. Even using the standard schedules and layout wouldn't get you that. F***[moderated], even I could do better than that.
Did anyone mention to you that those fun deductions for your health payments? Or your mileage? Or even your home office? Jesus, it's not like he's even trying.
Say what you will about the ACA, but what you got is a bad deal from your CPA. He's a lazy f******* [moderated] moron.
@JaredBusch said in Health insurance plans:
My annual Adjusted Gross Income is too high, by $5,000, to qualify for government subsidies to offset any portion of these costs.
Your AGI is over $97K a year? Because the subsidy ends at 400% of the poverty line, for a family of four, that's ~$97K.
https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-information/federal-poverty-guidelines
That's also the average, not the lowest.
And really? $100K post AGI not enough? Which is somewhere near $140K pre-tax assuming you are not deducting things correctly? If you work for yourself, your AGI could easily be around $200K.
You are bitching about the ACA. You really need to be bitching about getting a new CPA who ain't leaving you to the wolves.
@RojoLoco said in I can't even:
@DustinB3403 said in I can't even:
So he's installed Windows Server 2000, to support a million dollar printer from the 90's, and the software is 16-bit and doesn't seem to work on XP.
Um wtf is wrong with this, anyone else see the issue?
It's on the wrong IRQ?
Nope, ACPI for Win2K, no more IRQ conflicts. 
Without knowing how it's doing what it's doing, could be tons of reasons. Especially with very little changing between 2K and 2K3/XP. Probably don't know deep Winders stuff.
@JaredBusch said in Health insurance plans:
This glorious plan pictured below costs me a measly $701.47 per month for a family of 4.
That comes to $8417.64 per year.
This year has only been well child visits.
Your coverage is fairly good for the price. Our company's deductibles are a little better than yours, 5K per individual and 10K for family total, but our company pays $2500 a month for that. Employee kicks in ~$700 for a family plan. Single folk pay nuthin'.
Health insurance is expensive. Our reliance on our employer to supply it has been the biggest problem. Insurance companies being dicks about individual policies doesn't help either.
But, to give perspective, your price ain't bad, especially in a more regulatory state. Texas is a rubber stamp at the Department of Insurance. Oh, BCBSTX you want to raise rates 50000%, of course you can!
@Texkonc said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:
@PSX_Defector said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:
Sad state of affairs then.
Maybe I should hit up Jason for a job at Scale though.
I left and now you want to? I saw the writing on the wall....
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Aw hell naw.
I got a plum gig. Scale would have to pay me good money.
Sad state of affairs then.
Maybe I should hit up Jason for a job at Scale though.
That @Scale doing the boat again?
Should have run down to Austin for a quickie and/or crash the party.
@scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:
@PSX_Defector said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:
Guess I'm not missing anything that important.
Um... FDPs!!!
Ugh, don't remind me.
@scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:
@PSX_Defector when are we drinking in Dallas?
Don't know, been busy with shit recently.
Hopefully you will be in town for a while.
Guess I'm not missing anything that important.
That's Time Warner Inc., not Time Warner Cable. Has nothing to do with telecom.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-reaches-deal-to-buy-time-warner-for-more-than-80-billion-1477157084
No different than Verizon buying AOL and Yahoo or Comcast buying NBCUniversal. Content and delivery, not technology.
@Nic said in Ok, which one of you broke the Internet?:
@PSX_Defector they don't f***[moderated] around, so to speak
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They used redundant name servers, so when Dyn went down, people could still get their rocks off.
Still relevant, and of course, no one listened to me and setup redundancy on their DNS.
Syntax error is because you didn't give it any prameters.
They should have told you what to put in, but just in case, the commands should be:
smb client port445
smb client auth.1
Sets to SMBv2 and forces authentication.
