Aaand of course after getting it racked and powered, me and other guy notice that one of the 10G ports is broken, right when we desperately need this box up and running
Looks like I get to see how good iXSystemās support is tomorrow
Anyway some funny notes:
The guy that helped me with the server and has been with the company for eons has mentioned that this is the first time he has seen a brand new server being purchased in this company
The R20 appliance uses Supermicro board/IPMI, so thatās also a first Supermicro system in our farm
Maybe they asked for a gently used instead of brand new becauseā¦ you knowā¦ discount.
Unless OP was the one that ordered. The company that I work for (and soon to lose the contract) does that where they will try to find used on eBay before they pay for brand newā¦ unless the brand new is cheaper than used.
I have been quoted $40k for a server of equivalent spec to a used one that I bought for $3k instead. At some point though, you just need things to have a warranty if youāre running an enterprise at scale.
Probably got damaged during QA. iX is supposed to do burn-in testing before stuff gets shipped out, so I imagine some engineer tripped over the cable yanking it out and damaged the port.
Probably bit of a nitpick but the vdevs werenāt also configured as requested and on the system quote (2 vdevs with zraid1 requested, got 1 zraid1 vdev), and iX also botched up the shipping where it wasnāt set on DAP terms (Our company pays VAT and import fees through a 3rd party broker for VAT reclaim) and got sent via DDP (Seller pays VAT and import fees)
Hoping that they just send a motherboard to replace and wonāt need the whole chassis back, shit hit the fan and have to offload ton of data onto it as soon as possible.
Nope, supposed to be a brand new server. I did all the non-finance paperwork for that iX box.
Yeah thatās what the previous IT guy did and I refuse to do that. No more ebay unless its to revive some ancient box or get iDRAC enterprise cards. Iām now insisting on refurb/open box hardware with first-party warranties (aka new 2 year warranty package from Dell on servers) or new hardware. None of this HP Gen5 tier hardware shenanigans.
In other news of this horror show of this company, CEO also said no to storing laptops in the office
So all of the company IT stock is located within my house
If performance metrics were part of your contract (Iāve never done it, but I know they will guarantee certain throughput or IOPS or whatever based on your requirements), Iād confirm those are based on the config requested vs the config received. If QA ran all their benchmarks on the striped mirrors, thatās obviously not going to be representative of what youāre going to get with 2 zraid1ās.
Yeah, I mean the used savings can be kind of insane, but unless youāre in a position to build in a lot of redundancy (including added complexity, electricity, etc.), it shouldnāt be an option.
Lol, red flag, but youāre already neck deep in thoseā¦ All that matters at this point is the insane raise youāll demand (probably sometime next year?).
I was wondering why you prefer ITProTV over CBTNuggets. I am starting a new career in one week (from sales to I.T. Desk.) the position I will begin is level 1 hardware support. Still, my new boss said in six months to a year; there could be a possibility I could become a low-level Sysadmin; it all depends on my job performance; also, he said itās possible once I have my CCNA could receive a nice raise.
The instructors can be hella dry but the information is good. The Labs are also pretty good.
Linux Academy is also highly recommended.
Udemy can be good. I think Wendellās Linux course is still up.
Yeah. I want to say he did this just prior to the pandemic. It is mostly geared towards beginners but there were a few things in there that I did not even know.