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Working on some DWDM stuff over our fiber lines and testing failover

@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

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@Dashrender said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

Sadly, no one has made/provided a QB script to run on Excel to make this product die... Damn.. I wonder how much that would be worth?

MS did, once upon a time. But it didn't make it. but seriously, it was a product that they had. And it was good.

Any links to proof of that, never heard or can find anything about such a product. I dobut they'd compete with their own Dynamics offerings. Nor would MS ever recommend anyone run their whole accounting in excel even if using a bunch of messy VB inside of it.

QB doesn't compete with Dynamix, either. At least not normally.

It was a two stage process. First MS made the QB killer app. Then when it died off, MS said that the product had no real purpose as just buying Excel and using some template at the time would do the same thing.

MS SBA Small Business Accounting, became MS Office Accounting. We used it from first release until they discontinued. Stayed through every iteration. We were the first MS Partner on it, so we got a lot of attention from MS to help us use it. It was an excellent product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Accounting

at the time, they didn't have BizSight 365 as transparently available right after Accounting discontinued as they make it seem now. But it is still available.

https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/web-apps/biztechnologiesonline.e40736e0-8e7e-44f3-aad2-a8bab8ef5447

That wasn't excel based at all Microsoft accounting was based off some of the Dynamics code when Microsoft first bought Dynamics.

BizSight 365 also is not a Microsoft product just an item biztechnologies sells on appsource

@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@Dashrender said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

Sadly, no one has made/provided a QB script to run on Excel to make this product die... Damn.. I wonder how much that would be worth?

MS did, once upon a time. But it didn't make it. but seriously, it was a product that they had. And it was good.

Any links to proof of that, never heard or can find anything about such a product. I dobut they'd compete with their own Dynamics offerings. Nor would MS ever recommend anyone run their whole accounting in excel even if using a bunch of messy VB inside of it.

This Scott guy sounds like a scam, or maybe he just plays an IT guy on TV. Who the hell is he?

@Grey said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

Seriously, this would be great to listen to over a scotch and cigar. One of y'all can bring slides. Voices would get raised. Bottles would get broken. In the distance, crows flee.

In the meantime, the @op has left the building without really taking anyone's advice.

I'm still here. We just decided not to listen to illogical advice.

And not only that but Ylian himself says Intel is not involved.

Has this project been put under any security review or scrutiny? It seems to me like people are rushing to deploy beta software with full access to their environment and exposing it to the world without due diligence. This software is still in beta and there some reflags in the way people are installing it as well.

We ended up going going with two Nimble AF80s all flash with 100TB usable. One going in the main DC one going in the hot spare, replicating.

Oh boy, that's bad.

@flaxking said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

I've recognized an IPOD and witnessed it play out.

In the end the business decided it made more financial sense to put 200 VMs in Azure.

This is for a TV station cloud simply isn't an option to run this stuff unfortunately.

We're doing FCoE, not Iscsi for sure.

@Dashrender said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

I'm amazed at five servers were purchased but without any thought for storage, was the sales guy afraid to push his luck I mean come on...

I wouldn't say that - they clearly thought about SAN, but not having picked the SAN already, so they would know what host adapters might be required, etc... that is definitely a crazy part.

Each server has 8 10gb nics for the storage network. We have the switches for the storage network already.

CDW (which we paid as a consultant, not using their sales department) recommended us to go with a Nimble SAN for the dedup and compression.

I'm open to options. We have 200vms supporting various roles. Should we look into something like proxmox instead of VMware? I've toyed with it but was told it's not serious for business use and has security issues.

The HPE engineer we talked said that's not really the case with them anymore, and they are designed much better these days to handle fault issues.

Aside from that we already have bought 5 new hosts (1U hosts with just SD cards for VMware)

@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@ScottyBoy said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

This would be for our VMs. We mostly have application servers and SQL database servers. We have 5 new hosts for VMware to connect up to it.

VMs are specifically a time when a SAN really never applies. And especially highly critical workloads like databases. This is, by far, the absolute extreme of "a SAN should never enter the conversation for this." This is the textbook example worst workload for SAN.

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What use cases do you recommend SANs for?

This would be for our VMs. We mostly have application servers and SQL database servers. We have 5 new hosts for VMware to connect up to it.

@coliver said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

What exactly are your storage needs? What are you storing? If this is VM data you would probably benefit from getting an additional host and running something like Starwinds VSAN as your storage layer.

We're not sure but we'd like to get about 100TB of storage just for growth. We got some pretty good quotes for Equallogic SANs.

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But admins head closer to $500K.

Where?

You can easily get in the $200-250k range but to get above that you pretty much got to go into the research science, supercomputer/computer science kind of stuff IMO.

Scott was the CIO or a step or so below or to the side of that making that much or more on wallstreet. So sure, it's possible, but again, just super rare.

These are true facts, but this mixes things together in a misleadingly suggestive way. I was a CIO or similar on Wall Street. But that only explains why I have such broad insight into what different roles get there. I was also a true admin and engineer there.

CIOs make way, way more than this up there. You word this in such a way to make it sound like you believe that it was me not being an admin, but rather a CIO, and to explain my salary that way. But that's wrong. And we aren't talking about me, but jobs in general. All of your implications here are completely wrong.

My CIO offer was in the millions, not the hundreds of thousands. And I hired admins, lots of them, at this prices. Real admins. And I worked as an admin and I'm using the admin salary, not some other salary, when I talk about admins. And I still, to this day, am used as a salary advisor for hedge funds who call me and I help to set their hiring prices. So I think you tend to mislead in how you present this. I'm part of the hiring manager teams, still today, who determine these salaries. So when I say $450K is what we intend to hire at as a mid-point for a position category, I mean it.

How could you turn down that job? lol

Lawsuits from other banks. It wasn't just good money, which is obviously a factor, duh, but it was an amazing team, private flights, my own offices and staff in NYC, Zurich, and France, a junior CIO to support me off hours in Singapore, HK and Tokyo that would report to me, a budget of billions... it was amazing on the tech side and the human side. It was also a "move into the office and work non-stop" position with crazy stress, but brilliant, amazing people. Best interview I've ever been to, best offer I ever got.

Why would other banks sue?

Sadly, that's what they do. On the surface, the official complaint was that I was so high level and valuable that it was not acceptable for me to work in the US for three years (they literally said if I moved to the other coast to bag groceries that they'd find me and stop me and shut down the store) because I had too much insight into other country's finances (I did not, that was a lie, but in theory, I could have seen, maybe.)

But the real issue was deeper. The bank I was at touted that they were the best paying, most advanced environment out there. But the job I was going for had interviewed tons of people from our bank and turned them all down, including my manager, and offered me the job on the spot and had told the headhunters that I was who they were really looking for. So the bank I was at had a lot of internal politics to be impacted if word got out that they weren't paying, acting, or staffing competitive with another bank - it would dramatically undermine their culture and facade. To a tune of potentially billions of dollars.

As my lawyer said... no question we'd win the lawsuit. But they'd destroy a decade of my life while we fought it. In the end, we settled on a settlement involving money and me retiring and leaving the country. And at the end of the day, while I REALLY wanted that job (not for the money), I think things worked out for the best and that wasn't the life for me while raising kids.

That's crazy I had a similar thing happen to me.

Hi, all.

I'm not sure where to begin, we want to buy a SAN as we having expanding storage needs but have no clue where to start. Is EMC or HP better? How much should we look to spend?