@pmoncho said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

I get it, although, to even sell an H330 on a Dell PowerEdge R840 is like selling standard breaks on a Audi A6 and making the driver request anti-lock breaks.

They used to do this until the law changed and I can tell you as someone from snow country, this is what good drivers want. Anti-lock brakes kill a few good drivers to save even more bad ones. For the majority, they are great, should probably be required by law. But it totally screws people that know what they are doing and have that control. I've known a lot of people having anti-lock induced accidents, mostly in snow.

The point being, like anti-lock brakes, the H330 is something customers demand. If Audi had customers demanding not to have anti-lock brakes (and they could sell them) then it would only make sense for them to sell that configuration. The H330 is exactly like that, it has use cases, it has customer demand. Dell is absolutely faultless here. In fact, we'd be upset with them if they refused to sell us configurations that we need.

Every server vendor, every hardware RAID vendor, offers configurations like this. Every single one. Why? Because it is one of the most widely demanded solutions. If Dell didn't offer this, people would go to another vendor to get it.

@Pete-S said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

The H330 is like for labs or testing. Shouldn't be found in a production environment. It's a fine card for what it is, just not a production use card

Begs the question why when ordering a server for a specific purpose, they would even ship that out.

People mix up the H330 and the HBA330.
Both are LSI SAS3008 cards but with different firmware.
It can do one million IOPS and transfer 6GB/sec but it doesn't have any cache.

Entry and mid-level servers come with the H330.
HBA330 is primarily a Host Bus Adapter and it's what you order for running vSAN or any type of software raid.

Both have their place in production servers. It just depends on what they are used for.

I struggle to find a place for the H330 in production. The combination of low performance, but high cost and hardware risk just make it a crazy component. Dells makes it because the cost to do so approaches zero, and it earns them profits. But I can't think of any real world scenario in production where someone should buy it. It's an awesome lab unit for testing platform systems, so that it exists or is purchased in general make absolute sense, but deploying to production - feels like something would have to be wrong.

@pmoncho said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

Also, Dell does not even have a Celeron processor on the list for anything higher than a T340. Logic tells me they know its is not a good idea. Apparently selling an H330 on a T/R440 or higher hasn't hit the "not a good idea" level yet.

Define "not a good idea."

Not a good idea: Selling configurations that no one buys and do not encourage people to buy something of higher profits.

Selling a Celeron in a server makes the server look low end and would undermine higher cost sales. Selling it logically would not make sense. No one would buy it, and it would not help sell better configurations.

Selling the H330 makes absolutely sense in every way. Tons of people choose it for whatever reason, so selling it directly is profitable. It also encourages buying a second RAID card later, making them even more money so double justifying it.

It's a great idea for them to sell the H330. Now everyone sells things that are bad ideas to buy. The question is why are people buying these things, not why someone is selling them.

People will sell whatever makes them money. It is always buyers, never sellers, who truly determine what is for sale. if buyers wanted Celeron configurations in any quantity, you bet your bippy that Dell would have them as options immediately.

@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

The H330 is like for labs or testing. Shouldn't be found in a production environment. It's a fine card for what it is, just not a production use card

Begs the question why when ordering a server for a specific purpose, they would even ship that out.

Because it's functional and meets some people's requirements. Customers demand it, so vendors supply it. Companies sell what people buy, the question isn't why someone would sell it. The question is, why would someone buy it? In your case, you guys chose that card and justified to Dell why they are making and selling it - it makes them money. They don't care why you chose that card, they only know that you did (presumably because someone wanted the cheapest hardware RAID possible) and that you did is what makes them make sure that they keep providing that option for the future.

@black3dynamite said in Do you list your side business on your resume?:

If its ok to add volunteer work on your resume why not include part time consultant jobs too?

And home lab experience, too.

@Dashrender said in If not A+, then where should someone start?:

@scottalanmiller said in If not A+, then where should someone start?:

@Dashrender said in If not A+, then where should someone start?:

@scottalanmiller said in If not A+, then where should someone start?:

@Dashrender said in If not A+, then where should someone start?:

It might be better to say - the places that Scott and elk WANT to work use recruiters...

No, lots of good places don't. But lots of good places do. I think the point was only that HR doesn't play the huge role that people often imagine.

I haven't been in the job market going through HR in - hmm... ever I guess. First tech job was a bench job, but was pulled off a telemarketing call floor to work it part time as one of the few on the floor who "knew anything about computers" - so no HR for that move, that job became full time jack of all trades on anything PC/phone related (including pulling cables). Inter-company department change - no HR, moved to another company where a friend worked - no HR, company merged with second company - no HR - Opened business - of course no HR, closed business went to work for a client - no HR...

Nope, never really dealt with HR myself.

Me either, not for getting a job. Dealing with things after being hired, sure. But HR never seems to be in the critical path to getting the offer. Or when it is, it's like just in doing background checks and stuff, but not in the interview process.

Sure, but that said - I definitely don't consider this the norm. I mean it might be the norm for someone in your position - where people are seeking you out - but if you have zero contacts at the company - how else are you getting in the door? Do the F500 basically allow the hiring teams to get the resumes directly, and only after they pick a candidate have HR do the checks?

Obviously they do neither. They do the sensible thing of using recruiters, who are not HR and don't intentionally keep good candidates away. They do the simple, obvious thing. Why anyone things HR is normally in the chain is beyond me, no one seems to have seem this first hand.

I have a feeling that everyone hopes that HR being crazy is the reason why they don't get every job begging for them every time and it makes us feel good to blame HR. But working from the hiring side, only a total imbecile and failing company would ever have it cross their minds to work that way. Someone somewhere has done this, and it's like become that lore that has been accepted as truth because from the IT perspective, much like every end user being a complete idiot, it servers our egos to think HR are all idiots and that explains why we aren't the top pick for every job. But logic, observation, etc. don't support that theory. It's just something that people say and it gets repeated because everyone wants it to be true and it's obviously impossible to actually prove either way.

@StorageNinja said in Veeam Company Announcement:

If you buy a company for it's IP (sightly different than the last 2). This is normally for litigation reasons and often done as part of a fire sale.

Your M&A stratagy is to milk existing customers by spiking SnS renewals and cutting sales and support and engineering to the bone. "Sunset stratagy". You do this for under performing stagnent companies to return shareholder value.

You bought the company purely for physical assets (Land, equipment etc). Normally you wouldn't buy the company in thits case...

You bought the company entirely for it's Brand (whoever buys ToysRus and rebuilds it will be doing this).

Right, no one said that layoffs don't happen. My point was specifically that companies like Veeam... mature market leaders with the top market share, the top tech, the top organization never, ever get bought to be spun down.

@StorageNinja said in Veeam Company Announcement:

If you buy the company entirely for it's engineering tallent and have a sales org with similar capabilities (Not uncommon in my field). Again, this overlaps a bit with #1.

Getting the massive and highly skilled sales team is actually a big piece of likely why they wanted Veeam. This is a Veeam specialty.

@StorageNinja said in Veeam Company Announcement:

Anytime you buy a "up and coming" storage startup (epecially at fire sale prices), you generally have a lot of B/C sales tallent with hilariously low quota's. You don't necessarily fire them ALL but most of them will not survive in a more mature companies sales org that expects 3 million in sales, not $200K.

Veeam is anything but a startup, though. This is the most advanced and mature product on the market.

@StorageNinja said in Veeam Company Announcement:

Google does all the #[email protected]% time. (Basically to destroy potential competitors). Precog antitrust actions have killed Inbox, and tons of great products.

Yeah, but Google doesn't buy companies like this. Google buys little unheard of things, not market leaders.