Burned by Eschewing Best Practices
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@dustinb3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Rebooted an array that had failed, and refused to boot after replacing the drive.
Got lucky and was able to pop the failing drive back into the array and get back to operational. Is now asking for advice.
A Unitrends appliance as well, why was support not called before doing anything else?
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@scottalanmiller Once it doesn't fit on a single screen, Excel is not the right tool.
More like it's time to buy another monitor and get to stretching that window.
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@eddiejennings said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller Once it doesn't fit on a single screen, Excel is not the right tool.
More like it's time to buy another monitor and get to stretching that window.
A lot of places would do that, lol.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@eddiejennings said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller Once it doesn't fit on a single screen, Excel is not the right tool.
More like it's time to buy another monitor and get to stretching that window.
A lot of places
woulddo that, lol.FTFY
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Where to begin. First, a petulant child who blew up the moment he realized how screwed he was. Zero professionalism.
Next, using a Synology as a SAN, thought he bought HA SAN but Synology doesn't make that... oops, got Cisco switches, Inverted Pyramid of Doom, HA Hyper-V with a consumer non-HA SAN, and then blows up that people don't just answer his CHAP question, lol
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I like how he posts that he's done with the community. Like anyone wanted a whiny, unprofessional jerk like that posting. His approach doesn't really qualify as an IT Pro. He makes it clear he's not in IT, just pushing buttons. So technically he's not supposed to have been posting there, anyway.
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Implemented a SAN with clearly NO idea what a SAN even is.
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It's a DAS, not a SAN. He didn't even know what it was. He doesn't even have a switch, yet he thought that a network that doesn't even exist was the network being used.
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Typical attitude, the less he knows, the more confident he is.
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Gets hit with Ransomware, doesn't have proper working backups, and restores systems without a working backup (even if it was encrypted).
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Just wow... He doesn't understand that his backup system has failed and that he believes he is in good shape. Yet his Domain admin account keeps getting locked out "every 9 seconds".
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The best part, he puts the log file in a .doc... yep, sure. I'll just download a word document from someone with a known crypto infection...
Sharing is caring
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@nadnerb said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
The best part, he puts the log file in a .doc... yep, sure. I'll just download a word document from someone with a known crypto infection...
Sharing is caring
I know - right.. /FFS
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Guy got a Dell SCv3020 controller as an iSCSI SAN for his XenServer 7.1 install. SAN goes down constantly and Dell can't figure out what is wrong with it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Guy got a Dell SCv3020 controller as an iSCSI SAN for his XenServer 7.1 install. SAN goes down constantly and Dell can't figure out what is wrong with it.
God I wish we could still have links to ridicule these design choices. .
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@dustinb3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Guy got a Dell SCv3020 controller as an iSCSI SAN for his XenServer 7.1 install. SAN goes down constantly and Dell can't figure out what is wrong with it.
God I wish we could still have links to ridicule these design choices. .
It's not about ridiculing them. It's about documenting how often bad things happen. Vendors constantly claim that if we don't collect this data, it didn't happen. That's why we have this thread. Showing that not following best practices really does lead to disaster, in the real world, at rates that people claim are impossible.
So many SAN vendors have called us liars for saying that SANs fail. They claim that that is impossible. Yet it's a constant source of evidence.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@dustinb3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Guy got a Dell SCv3020 controller as an iSCSI SAN for his XenServer 7.1 install. SAN goes down constantly and Dell can't figure out what is wrong with it.
God I wish we could still have links to ridicule these design choices. .
It's not about ridiculing them. It's about documenting how often bad things happen. Vendors constantly claim that if we don't collect this data, it didn't happen. That's why we have this thread. Showing that not following best practices really does lead to disaster, in the real world, at rates that people claim are impossible.
So many SAN vendors have called us liars for saying that SANs fail. They claim that that is impossible. Yet it's a constant source of evidence.
Glad you said that, certainly seems to be about the ridiculing for a few on here.
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@jackcpickup said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@dustinb3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Guy got a Dell SCv3020 controller as an iSCSI SAN for his XenServer 7.1 install. SAN goes down constantly and Dell can't figure out what is wrong with it.
God I wish we could still have links to ridicule these design choices. .
It's not about ridiculing them. It's about documenting how often bad things happen. Vendors constantly claim that if we don't collect this data, it didn't happen. That's why we have this thread. Showing that not following best practices really does lead to disaster, in the real world, at rates that people claim are impossible.
So many SAN vendors have called us liars for saying that SANs fail. They claim that that is impossible. Yet it's a constant source of evidence.
Glad you said that, certainly seems to be about the ridiculing for a few on here.
That is as much a joke as it is honesty. Some people refuse to learn via "nice" approaches, and thus have to be ridiculed into the realization that what they have done is absolutely insane.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Guy got a Dell SCv3020 controller as an iSCSI SAN for his XenServer 7.1 install. SAN goes down constantly and Dell can't figure out what is wrong with it.
Is it going down, like it freezes and needs reboot, or is the thing going to sleep and causing tapdisk errors, which causes linux vms to go RO, and Windows vms to BSOD? I had to disable c6 and c7 on my storage server to stop this phenomenon.
