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Servers and Drives
21.Feb.08 | 2 Comments
A client ordered themselves a Dell server and dropped it off today to have me set it up as their new domain controller and as their development box for our application(s) at their site. Nice little PowerEdge unit that seems beefy ’nuff to do the job.
One major bummer though. It was ordered with a pair [...]
Panic, Chaos, Doom
21.Jul.07 | 12 Comments
Let me try to lay out this series of events that has culminated in way too much time at the office this weekend.
It all began…
Six months ago I converted a development application server (aka “the vault”) to a VMware virtual machine hosted on our dev server. Worked great that way and reduced the heat load [...]
Data Center Musings
21.Apr.07 | 2 Comments
I’ve spent a lot of time at our data center this week. Probably on the order of almost 20 hours since Tuesday night, and that was a 9 hour stretch. Most subsequent visits have avg’d 2 hours. What follows are random thoughts from these visits.
I’d take a picture to illustrate what a [...]
