@TomOConnor TBH though, they're better. We went with Dell because of the price, but they don't have storage blades, and they're not quite as configurable
Can't comment on the HP blades, though I'd imagine they're good
But I'm really really pleased with the Dell blades. We've got a mix of M610 and M910s in a blade chassis with 10Gb installed and we've been really really happy with them. Using them as a mixture of dedicated servers and ESX hosts
And the 10GbE uplinks are only SPF+ and you get I thnik 4 of them per chassis?
@RobMoir I almost died of happiness when we got two M910 blades delivered, four sockets with 8-core processors, 144Gb of RAM.... and then two weeks later Intel announced the 10-core processors.
mark - you can get a 10gb pass-through module that will expose a 10gb interface to each blade that you have. as well as the 10gb switch module that behaves how you describe
we're pretty much a dell shop from end to end in our server rooms and not had any problems. Mind you, we've got a couple of HP servers and an HP SAN in there too which have also been really good. I think most of the top tier gear is good
Which is why if I ever move to America, I'm not moving to Los Angeles or San Francisco - I watch wayyy too many of those "WHEN DISASTERS ATTACK" shows
@TomOConnor True, I've seen a few docos on how whole buildings, like hospitals, don't actually touch the ground, they're insulated by massive spheres that absorb most of the movement
I get so sad when I read that interstellar space travel will never actually be possible, and to get anywhere in space worthwhile will take far longer than any humans natural life span
In other news, I got sick somewhere along the line. So in addition to having my kidney stone giving me grief, my sinuses are shot and I feel just terrible all over.
@Holocryptic Yeah I just watched the video, it's clearly run by a projector in the roof, which means you can't move the table without having to re-calibrate it.
"My kids loved this book so much that they insisted that I buy them others in the same series including "Rover the dog says "SYN/ACK!", "How to be the Best at Firewall Configuration (The Boy's Book)", "Big, Bad Bill And The Blue Screen of Death" "
Yeah. That's why I avoid videos of myself. I'd say stuff that lives on forever? uh uh. Nope. I'm bad enough when I type on the Internet. I don't need videos of the same
@BenPilbrow I have a Toshiba network printer that Server 2008 will take the Generic Driver Toshiba has, but not the 32bit driver. I need the 32bit driver before I can deploy via GPO because most of my clients are 32bit
IIRC, it puts 32 and 64 bit drivers in different sections of the UI. By all means try importing the 64 bit driver and see if a 32 bit one shows up too.
@Holocryptic I would dispute that server virtualization could never be referred to as "private cloud" but that might just be by virtue of the nebulous nature of the term "cloud." (Pun intended)
Hey look, a flag! Since it's for another room, and I don't know what is or is not acceptable over there, I think I'll do the adult thing and leave it alone.
We have some network printers that Toshiba suplies generic drivers for on the CD. Now installing the 64bit edition works fine on the Server, but when I try to add a 32bit driver for those clients, the dialog tells me this.
I've tried the "32bit drivers on the CD" and the ones on Toshiba's site,...
Link is dead for me. But in any case, I don't know. You can try and hack around with the drivers, but I think you're going to spend more time on it that it's worth.
I'm testing zfs-fuse as an option to provide filesystem compression on existing CentOS 5 servers. I'm dealing with a highly-compressible dataset (80%), so zfs-fuse comes in quite handy. The issue I'm encountering with my storage pools is related to file permissions.
It appears that zfs-fuse is i...
I feel the same way now about logging in to a 2003 box as I did about logging into a 2000 box a few years ago. As in, "Why the hell is this thing still around?"
My biggest gripe about Server 2008 though is how fucking hard they make it to get to the actual network connections screen. You have to go through that stupid network and sharing center to get there.
As soon as I discovered 2008 R2 you could just type "view network connections" into the start menu I made it priority 1 to upgrade evertything I could
another stupid thing: Set up a new connection without a default gateway (like iSCSI usually is) and windows 2008 (including R2) will try forever to recognize the network, and not let you pass traffic from it unless you disable the firewall
which is kind of dumb, since it's recommended to not route iSCSI
@pauska Hmm, now that I think of it, we run DHCP on our iSCSI network so that issues a DNS suffix (that doesn't do anything), which might be enough to get it to stop trying to identify the network
We certainly don't have a gateway on our iSCSI networks
Actually I lie, we do use our DNS suffix, and maybe that's enough
@pauska I only have one God ;) And it's a failover clustered DHCP, and all our SAN boxes are static of course, but there are just so damn many machines on the network that I got sick and tired of configuring them all by hand
And documenting them, my god, so now I can at least just print out a report of DHCP leases
They have 31-day reservation and so far it hasn't caused any issues
btw, do you have an office in brisbane? The lead sysadmin at my job (who's been living in australia) is quitting and he's on the hunt for a new job down there
We have some network printers that Toshiba suplies generic drivers for on the CD. Now installing the 64bit edition works fine on the Server, but when I try to add a 32bit driver for those clients, the dialog tells me this.
I've tried the "32bit drivers on the CD" and the ones on Toshiba's site,...
