Loosing good account reps seems to be the norm in the SBM... a sales person often seems to start out on the SMB desk, if they excel, they are promoted to other desks. This has happened to me at least three times across different vendors.

Done

@minion-queen said in MC17: xByte:

Mike doesn't have an account yet (off to make him sign up).

He thought that he had one, but we couldn't find it.

@beta said in SW Port - New Server for virtual host - Sanity Check:

Oh, one thing I was really curious about too, would it make sense to get an extra drive as a hot spare? Normally with OBR10 and spinning HDD, I'd put every spindle into the array, but since SSDs are going to give me plenty of IOPS and capacity, I didn't know if it is a good/bad idea with OBR5.

The rule of "no hot spare ever" for RAID 5 still applies. If you were going to do this, you would do OBR 6. OBR6 can make loads of sense here, but OBR5 + HS does not.

But it is up to you, depends on cost and risk aversion.

@NerdyDad said in Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge FX:

Its a nice concept, but unless you can purchase more than 2 chassis for ultimate redundancies, your eggs are still in one basket, shared with the storage.

But in IT, eggs in one basket is a good thing, not a bad one. It's better to have your storage in the same basket as your servers, even when doing an IPOD. The worst option is to separate them.

@coliver said in xByte to Carry HPE:

@JaredBusch said in xByte to Carry HPE:

@coliver said in xByte to Carry HPE:

@JaredBusch said in xByte to Carry HPE:

I don't care about the hardware, but I have always bought Dell because the onsite warranty costs were better.

I have clients that prefer one thing or another for whatever reason. But I care not.

I'm not sure I understand brand loyalty especially where servers are concerned. They are commodity hardware now, and have been for the past several years, get what you need for the moment at the best price and move on.

You are reading something into what I said. I said I buy dell because the warranty is cheaper. Period. I did not say anything about the parts. I also have not bought a new server in years. Last few have been from XByte.

Nope, not reading anything into what you said. Using your comment, that your customers have a preference, to spring board to something else.

Those preferences don't matter though, because they are just responses to marketing. They are not IT people and have no idea. Thankfully there is no difference as we have all said.

@BRRABill said in R730 PDR1001 Fault on Drive 3:

@scottalanmiller said in R730 PDR1001 Fault on Drive 3:

Thankfully just a PERC, so pop out the old one, pop in the new, enjoy your coffee.

I know we've been over this before, but is there any way to ensure that doesn't blow a second drive? Or is that mainly age related, with a little bit of bad luck thrown in?

Ensure? No, that's never an option. But replacing a drive in mirrored RAID (RAID 1, RAID 10) does not increase the risk of another drive blowing. That's part of parity RAID, not mirrored. So you protect the "other" drives from blowing my choosing mirrored RAID from the outset.

Been working all day today. I am tired and my in box will never recover, neither will my butt.

@Minion-Queen The food from all of those places is worth every calorie, I promise 🙂

This battlestation is fully operational!! We have the first seven nodes of lab power online now from California! Very excited for all of the cool, new projects that we will be doing shortly.

@xByteSean said:

@BRRABill Yes as a matter of fact we do. Any proof of concept box can be configured and shipped to you, and if it didn't fit your needs we would provide the return shipping label at no cost to you.

That is very awesome!

The R820 is a very cool unit. So many cores and so much memory. Perfect for massive Linux and FreeBSD systems.

As mentioned earlier, I would be interested, but would like to know more about the lab now that you have all in place, on what do we get to play with

Me pissed off at it right now.

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@scottalanmiller said:

I think that you are probably stuck making an in-person appearance if your colo facility does not offer a KVM hook up for you.

Offered, but if I spin up a new asterisk instance on this new server and migrate my settings, I can can turn off the old one and will need to go on site to reconfigure those drives and install server 2012 data center on it anyway. So I will just do it all at the same time.

@creayt said in Testing the Limits of the Dell H710 RAID Controller with SSD:

Link seems to not work.

A bit of necromancy there. . .