Hey J,

Just installed four new Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers w/ 2 dual core xeon processors each. Two need to go into production, but I think the other two are going to crunch test for a while.

got any experience with vmware?

Well, I'm not fond of your brand of server (I'm biased), but they should crunch test nicely. I'm enjoying my HP BL480c 2P and 4P Dual Core Xeon processor, and HP BL460c 2P Dual Core Xeon processor c-class bladeservers... some of them crunch over 10,000 points a day.



Actually, not yet. I've been too busy with other things. I will be experimenting with vmware later to see where it might apply to the voo-doo I do. A guy I used to work with has used it a lot... in fact his new position revolves around virtualization technology. So many cool things... so little time to play with them.

Oh well, for the next few workdays I'll have to..

• Configure my new DHCP/DNS server (replacing a 4U 550MHz with 1U 3GHz system)
  
• Get the new 2U lab File Server on the corporate network, consolidating 2 old systems that take up 21U
  
• Get my new 2U RDP system configured for network OS installations, replacing 2 OLD 5U systems
  
• Get the OS installed and setup for the SQL system
  
• Finish the cabeling so I can move the rp7410 into it's new rack.. (man that thing is heavy)
  
• move a rack of hardware from one lab into my lab... and then tear it down and rebuild it.... the right way
  
• install several PDUs in racks... even though I don't have a place to plug them all in until a big move later this year
  
• install a pdu in MY racks and get the plugged in.... (which means downtime for a few crunchers)
  
• replace some old 10/100 hubs with 10/100/1000 switches
  
• Oh yeah, and assign static IPs to a few things that I don't want to be dynamic
  
• install some TFT rackmount keyboard/monitors... and KVMs... and cable the systems to them
  
• Clean the lab
  
• Scrap some OLD, OLD, OLD hardware (servers, controllers, CRTs, etc)
  
• Do a lotta updating to Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
  
• and..... a whole lot more.
  

I'm sure that vmware will be in there somewhere.

Oh.... and did I mention that none of that is actually the job I get paid for?! LOL

- J

Two folks that worked for me were re-orged into a new org. My other folks are swamped with their work... when they aren't on vacation for their kid's spring break that is.



Yer bringin' back memories. From '97 to '01 I was "The Fibre Guy" at work. Since then, I've just dabbled with FC to support other things, like iSCSI. I'm scrapping a lot of my FC hardware. I even threw away my copper fibre channel hub, cables, and HBAs circa 1997-98. Heck, I'm scrapping at lot of my older SCSI stuff. Gotta make room for all those SAS/SATA systems. (more on the SAS than SATA!)

In 1997 I got to use a lab that had 7 42U racks of Fibre Channel storage... 48 storage boxes filled with 9.1 GB 1.6'' drives... for a whopping 3.5 TB of storage. And now, you can fit 3 or 4 times that in just 2U. And it's a bit faster today too!
- j

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So hook me up with some good stuff!

That guy would be David Copperfield and it's interesting he did it to the Kyrie from Mozart's Requiem in D Minor (mass for the dead). Remember a few years ago when Microsoft use the Confutatis Maledictis from the same piece to advertize Internet Explorer? I guess no one in the marketing group at Microsoft realised the cool words the chorus was singing, "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis", translated as ""The damned and accursed are convicted to the
flames of Hell Heck." (Hi nelsoc ). Or maybe they knew their product better than we thought.