Posts made by wrx7m

I was checking out which drives would fit in my budget and not give me the firmware alerts. I came across this 800GB model and found that it was 40%-ish cheaper on the Canadian version of Dell's site. At first I didn't realize that it was the Canadian and couldn't figure out why the exact same drive was priced so differently. I still am kind a wondering about that. With the exchange rate it would should be cheaper in the US.
Manufacturer Part# : C1NHC | Dell Part# : 342-6080
Canadian - http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/Memory/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=bsd&cs=cabsdt1&sku=342-6080&mfgpid=225340

US - http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsdv&cs=04a5w&sku=342-6080

@Lyndsie_xByte said:

Thanks for the mention @scottalanmiller , @wrx7m - Just talked to the engineers. Short answer is yes. If you put the SSDs into the rear backplane, the system will automatically ask if you want them to be cachecade disks when you configure them. If you add then into other slots, you can change them into a cahcecade array when you are editing the controller settings. You press F2 to select the type on the settings.

I should be able to do a hot add, right? Then configure from iDRAC? I would like to do it without taking down the server, if possible.

@Lyndsie_xByte Thank you! That was very quick! I didn't even know you could cachecade on the front.

@scottalanmiller Happen to know if you can enable cachecade on a Dell R720XD after you have an array created on the main drives?

@scottalanmiller Right, but in terms of administration and not having access to one side of things. I just don't want to have something get screwed up on their end and affect the corporate mail.

I am not really concerned with the security aspect. I am more concerned with the potential interference of the DKIM for two origins, one of which i will not have any control over and the blacklisting. Should I just use similar domain names for this purpose?

Our web design firm wants to setup transnational e-mails with Mandrill.com (related to Mailchimp). https://www.mandrill.com/features/

Is there anything to be concerned with when using the same domains as we do for corporate e-mails? I already employ SPF records for my domains for corporate e-mail services. Mandrill would require SPF and DKIM. I know I can modify the SPF record to allow multiple sources but am less familiar with DKIM. Would DKIM require me to set it up for my on-premise Exchange server/Barracuda SVF300 in addition to how Mandrill does it?

Although, this would not be for bulk e-mail campaigns, one concern would be black-listing. Is that just my paranoia?

Thanks in advance!

Would love to work from home. Someday...

I just watched that on Sunday. Fun show.

@johnhooks Thanks for the tips!

@johnhooks said:

@wrx7m said:

Strange. I only see 14-day and 30-day trials.

It looks like they've removed the link. If you send me your email I can send you a link for a site and it will create an account for you.

Edit: I think I found the link

https://www.alfresco.com/products/cloud/signup

Thanks! That link seems to have worked. It doesn't say trial anywhere, so I am hoping it is the free version.

Strange. I only see 14-day and 30-day trials.

@johnhooks said:

Alfresco One is their hosted solution. It's free for up to 10GB of data. They have some integrations also, they're in the settings for the individual sites.

I was looking from my phone. Somehow I must have missed that. I will check it out again from my desktop. Thanks for clarifying!

In case anyone is wondering. I have the older, not-quite-as-butch-sounding, WeatherGooseII. When Geist bought them, they changed the name to watchdog 1200. Pretty much the same thing, from everything I can see.
http://www.itwatchdogs.com/climate-monitor-Watchdog-1200-p1.html

@MattSpeller Yeah, the IT watchdogs appliance also has the ability to add water/flood sensors. I have one of those connected too. That scenario would be one of the worst. Fortunately, we don't have freezing winters here.

@RojoLoco Also, I had my AC go out in the server room at a place I worked at about 10 years ago when I was only helpdesk. No one knew anything was wrong until the next day when nothing worked. Open the server room door and it was like 105 in there. JBODs and a tape library and local storage cooked to death. $50K and a few weeks later and we got most of it back after sending the drives to a clean room recovery facility. After that we installed climate monitoring and alerting from IT Watchdogs. I learned my lesson from that.

When I started at my current place (5 years ago), the server room had a portable AC and an in-wall unit neither of which was doing anything but blowing the hot air around the room. Install a ductless split system and IT watchdogs again. I have had two AC failures and was able to prevent a meltdown each time. Power off everything remotely and go open the room to cool it down. Leave room open with gigantic fan blowing exhaust out the door and power things back on. We are now on the second ductless split system.

@RojoLoco Yeah, I have PRTG to tell me when I need to do something. Usually, people don't bother me after hours. It is the equipment that beckons.
I used to get calls from remote users on the weekends for expiring passwords and that was annoying so I setup a password notification e-mail that starts 14 days prior to their expiration. And I have e-mail templates that I send out explaining how to create strong passwords that you can remember and how to change your password and update the cached credentials on the domain-joined laptop.

If someone calls me now, they will get a "You'll have to wait til Monday". Fortunately, it hasn't come to that but I still have to force some people to change them on the day of or on the Friday prior to it expiring. They might as well be my kids.

@dafyre I am the only IT guy for the company so I am on call 24/7/365.

I wish it were a holiday for me. I always seem to end up working for places that do 7 days a year.

@RojoLoco 37, and no kids. I thought I was the only one. LOL