Asked the boss this morning if he had made his mind up on XYZ after he told me to wait for his input ... today he says "you shouldn't wait on me man" ... /facepalm
I coulda focused on this yesterday morning and been almost done .. but nooooo
I know my wife is sitting at home tapping her foot [she's got me on skype, we both have 3G service on our iPhones, we've already talked about my working late tonight, it's a block and a half away, it's not a regular occurrence, nobody needs to worry ;) ]
@drachenstern the basic concern is, one of our server's RAID10 is nearly full, so we need to upgrade. I was thinking if we have to copy all the data to a new RAID array might as well upgrade the server hardware too, but now I'm thinking move some data to a SAN first, it will also make a hardware upgrade later much easier
Buy, download, and even redownload. You can install apps on every Mac you use and even download them again. This is especially convenient when you buy a new Mac and want to load it with apps you already own.
Additionally, I'm just sure that there will be a provision about only being used at one time by so many copies, enforced through the app store at some indeterminate time in the future.
@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException Seriously man. I think that the iPhone one alone is like 96 pages. Then there's the iTunes one. Then there's the iTunes Store one. Then there's something additional from AT&T I think...
@Moshe When Macs were really unpopular back in the 90s, I wished more people used them. Now, I kinda miss the feeling like I was an elitist I had back then...
@TimStone - We, the people should hire a team of lawyers to secede from the Apple Union, force King Jobs off of his throne and take over Apple Country and set things right.
@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException (man you need to shorten your name damnit) yea i mean we ran realtime telecom dbs under vms for a long time so i know it can be done
So, I would ask them what kind of connectivity it supports
@Shog9 - No, the humiliation of being stuck on windows having to call Rajesh for support, when Apple users can bring it to an Apple store just a short drive away. :P
@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException oh also what options to they have for disks ... SSD, 15k,10k,7.2k ... do they let you do tiering ... are you required to by thier disk (almost certainly yes)
We will probably be upgrading this server in 2 - 6 months anyway, so an SSD would buy me time and performance, the SAN would buy me time and would also help with the upgrade
performance is pretty much fine, except for one VM which has high load and no reason, has for over a year and we're about to drop it. The issue is, our existing RAID10 is almost full, and we don't need to upgrade the server just yet since, aside from RAID< it's just fine for us
@Zypher If we get an SSD, that will give us some extra space, and also more performance, allowing us to stick on this server even longer. We want to move to a managed VMware solution, to take some of the burden off of me
@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException ahh yea we had a vm like that had to give it 4 vCPUs and it ran them 100% 24x7 worked fine under physical HW at my last job ...
yea ... i mean you're really going to want to get one of the Itel -E series SSDs for that workload
@Zypher Yeah, I was going to do that tomorrow. I haven't been in there in a while. Last time Kyle gave me some great advice on... something else. Nagios I think
Actually that's a new one, last time I was there it was still chat.serverfault.com
