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adorai posted:for reference, at our primary location we have 6 hosts, 30TB, and 225 VMs. We replaced 20U of netapp with 3U of Nimble and increased our performance. That's... impressive
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CLAM DOWN posted:Is Nimble's proprietary file system/algorithm/whatever worth it? It's one option we're looking at right now. We have a 1u nimble for 8 blades running 30 vms, and a cisco ucs running another 13 vms. We're running at 85% ssd cache rate so every server flies. It's fantastic tech.
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Tab8715 posted:Goddamn, what did you replace?
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Jesus. We're looking at 50TB disk min due to DR.
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Okay, now I'm interested.
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GreenNight posted:Jesus. We're looking at 50TB disk min due to DR.
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Yeah I spent a few hours last night reading up on Nimble. Cool stuff, gonna be a hard sell to the boss man. None of our consulting companies are really taking that solution seriously. We're pretty old school in only using proven technologies. That's why our ERP is still an old AS400.
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GreenNight posted:None of our consulting companies are really taking that solution seriously.
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Nimble is valued at less than 5% of what EMC is. They could fold or get bought out easily
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Roargasm posted:Nimble is valued at less than 5% of what EMC is. They could fold or get bought out easily They're also due to become (I think this year I read) one of the only profitable storage companies (other than EMC and Netapp) that has NOT been bought out. They seem mature, stable, growing, and everything I read about their file/storage system sounds fantastic.
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Roargasm posted:Nimble is valued at less than 5% of what EMC is. They could fold or get bought out easily edit: anyone remember netapp support back in the day? When you called and got someone knowledgeable every time because it was small and the engineers answered the phone? That's nimble today.
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So what you're all saying is that I should start buying shares of Nimble.
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 I blocked my boss's number so he tried emailing me instead. gently caress off. Now I'm seriously forwarding all these messages to his boss and making sure he's aware that the incumbent IT guy is incompetent.
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Methanar posted:
Yes. Way to do the correct thing.
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We've been doing a lot of research lately into moving from Rackspace to Azure (for various reasons from too many downed servers / lb's to new customers asking for EU datacenters that follow certain laws). Now Rackspace is partenering with AWS (similar to their partnership with Azure for their Azure Professional Services). Looks like it's not so much a technical decision anymore but an 'abandon ship' decision.Methanar posted:
holy poo poo lol
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Methanar posted:
Lmao I'm proud of you
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Methanar posted:
Why did you set so much stuff up to break after you had left to make that guy look bad 
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kensei posted:That's... impressive To be fair you could also replace 20U of old NetApp with 2U of new NetApp at this point. Or 3U of Tegile. Or 3U of TinTri. Or a number of other products. Cheap flash means you no longer need to buy a ton of spindles to provide IOPs so rack space goes way down. It's just the over-arching trend in the industry. CLAM DOWN posted:They're also due to become (I think this year I read) one of the only profitable storage companies (other than EMC and Netapp) that has NOT been bought out. They seem mature, stable, growing, and everything I read about their file/storage system sounds fantastic. I'd be surprised. They're growing revenue year over year, but also expenses. They've lost more money each year than the previous and they are still spending at a good clip. They've probably got another year or two before they reach profitability. adorai posted:because a profit of 25% of the sale price is less on nimble than it is on EMC or netapp. It has a lot more to do with vendor relationship management. We make more selling Nimble than NetApp a lot of times because the NetApp AMs will try to force us to cut our margins to the bone to get price competitive. But the particulars of deal registration sometimes means you don't have a choice. psydude posted:So what you're all saying is that I should start buying shares of Nimble. Don't buy stock in any storage company.
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Anyone have any suggestions for a good asset tracking system for MSPs? Right now we've just got invoices and warranty PDFs per client, but I'd like to get it sorted into a proper system.
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I've been in a work coma for a year, did I miss anything?
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Paladine_PSoT posted:I've been in a work coma for a year, did I miss anything? blackswordCA got a different job and the stories stopped. Then his brother from another mother larchesdanrew came to us and our lives have been forever made schadenfreudier. Also both Dick Trauma and nitrogen found pods and we hates them now precioussss.
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Potato Alley posted:
We need a book on how long DT's pod lasts this time.
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KennyTheFish posted:We need a book on how long DT's pod lasts this time. Based off how much luck with jobs he had in the past: Christmas Eve.
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Methanar posted:
Haha god drat, that guy is getting really desperate. Just remember to stay strong when the boss inevitably calls you for help. If you want to help make sure you get paid well, otherwise remember you dont owe them a thing.
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Didn't that guy write you up for being incompetent or something? You should reply back to the mail with a copy of whatever he yelled at you about.
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I can't fathom what levels of mental illness I would have to be enduring to believe that an ex employee is somehow required to help me with my systems.
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Potato Alley posted:blackswordCA got a different job and the stories stopped. And MJP left his crappy situation and got a job at a chill radio station.
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Sickening posted:I can't fathom what levels of mental illness I would have to be enduring to believe that an ex employee is somehow required to help me with my systems.
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Sickening posted:I can't fathom what levels of mental illness I would have to be enduring to believe that an ex employee is somehow required to help me with my systems. Seriously. I've gotten calls from past employers or coworkers that I'm friendly with and have been willing to lend a hand. But they were polite enough to never take more than 15 minutes of my time very rarely or to pay me an acceptable rate if it was going to take longer.
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Methanar posted:Well I just finished my last day at my first garbageman-with-domain-admin job. So I won't be spamming the thread as much as I have been for a while. gently caress that guy. This is why we're telling you to add a gently caress-You Tax.
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Your references should be the series of increasingly desperate emails begging you to fix their broken poo poo.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:gently caress that guy. $100/hr 4 hour minimum is pretty standard. I can only imagine what the gently caress-you tax is gonna look like on that one.
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Oh man, that time of the year again. Need to fill out my self-appraisal. How do I say "gently caress management" in the nicest way possible?
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Tailored Sauce posted:Oh man, that time of the year again. Need to fill out my self-appraisal. How do I say "gently caress management" in the nicest way possible?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:$100/hr Nothing good can come of working for this nutjob at any price. Even if Methanar gets a contract in writing this guy seems like enough of a shithead to try to weasel out of it, and it's not worth the stress of going to small-claims court or whatever. Send a curt response that you do not work for XYZCorp any more, block all of his email/phone/SMS messages, and move on with life.
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^^^^ This was my stance last week too. Vulture Culture posted:letter of resignation This works wonders, especially when poo poo hits the fan after you leave.
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Sprechensiesexy posted:Based off how much luck with jobs he had in the past: Christmas Eve. YOU FUCKERS I think I'll make it to at least the 1 year mark, unless something goes horribly wrong at my performance review. It's possible because this place has turned out to be just as uncommunicative as the last. Am I doing a good job? A bad one? The CEO and my boss have cancelled all but two of our bi-weekly meetings since I started. I have had two meetings with my boss since I started seven months ago. I have my 2016 budget prepared although no one asked me to make one. I'm hoping that by meeting with my boss to review it I'll get a sense if she's already disconnected from me or if there's some other reason she doesn't talk to me.
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Coredump posted:No they bounce off into the Atlantic as they go north. I used to watch hurricanes pretty close during some pretty bad drought times in the southeast. If this hurricane acts like ones from 2007 and 2008 it will wonder off into the ocean. Called it.
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