@scottalanmiller It also weeded out bad clients. "You don't want to pay for good advise?" Cool we'll move on and find someone who does and you can call CDW and see what they are excited to sell you today. Its not like we didn't have tons of work/clients/growth as it was...

We did these at my last job (Think the last one I did was ~40K). Really I wanted the report to stand on its own and have enough value that we could walk away and do nothing more, but they would still have value.

Discounts against implementation create bad incentives (to spike the project costs enough that you can still maintain a P&L for the projects). I'd rather have simple, projects where the P&L for every interaction is fair pricing, clearly understood deliverables and value for every engagement, and everyone's value can clearly be understood. You also screw the P&L for your BA's if you do discounts like this (which lowers their book value to the company and generally means you'll end up paying them or the "shock troop" consultants who do the assessment less than they are worth).

@wirestyle22 Just deploy Apple TV's and let them Airsync their content over.

@scottalanmiller Its the integration's that make Slack great.
There's thousands of the damn things and dependon on the slack we'll use different ones. (one for VMUG can use MailChimp/Eventbrite to track sign ups for an event, Stripe can track orders, ZenDesk can notify the team of a new ticket or threshold.
Or even the stupid ones like /hangout can create a quick video meeting (although they are integrating voice/video).

I like the app because I have multiple teams I can easily flip between (Local VMUG, vExpert, pan galactic corp, my project team)

@PSX_Defector If you want a list of VMware cloud air network companies to apply at I know a few

@IRJ PayPal are space pirates on getting money back. Beyond that assuming he does what I do (link it to a checking account that is kept at zero $ and is a clearing account) you can't claw back anything even if they try (My bank will bounce the request). Escrow fights are just not worth the time for $150.

@IRJ Your funny

@BRRABill It is also CRAZY slow (like Low latency tape is what we call it). Useless for most workloads without a large cache in front of it.

With De-duplication and Compression and RAID 5/6 Flash drives are cheaper than 10K RPM drives. We did the price comparisons with VSAN 6.2 came out and 10K is officially "dead" unless all your data is encrypted or something.

@brianlittlejohn Its like an extra $30 to get a NL-SAS over an Enterprise SATA drive....

@BBigford said:

slack

We just adopted it. its how 90% of my team's communication is done. Its good for teams, less good for 20K users.

/giphy is the greatest integration ever.

@crustachio I thought their tier system was based on a mix of drives in a node, not a mixture of host types in the cluster. From my understanding of SCRIBE you would end up with 1/2 the IO coming from flash and 1/2 coming from NL-SAS disks (until you fill up one tier). That's going to make for interesting latency consistency, unless they added some extra intelligence onto it (So both copies will always be on one tier or another).

@crustachio The VDX's issues with bugginess were for layer 3 bridges back in the day. The only outstanding issues I"m aware of involve Cisco wireless controller gratuitous arps. They are limited on multicast PIM-Sparse was another gotcha on the big chassis. They are pretty stable these days, and most people for "serious" BGP edge layer 3 use MLXe's anyways. The VDX is more about having a L2MP fabric for heavy east/west workloads.

@scottalanmiller said:

Gluster

Gluster is terrible for VM storage (no caching, beyond client memory, brick healing can kick of a file lock and crash a VM). I tried to make a VSA off of it ~2013.

CEPH in theory can be used, but its performance is bad for streaming workloads (Strangely random doesn't suck). Most serious openstack deployments use something else for storage for this reason (or go all flash).

I do agree that what makes a "HCI system" is the simplicity of management and integration between the storage and hypervisor. I built a VSA DRDB system on VMware back in ~2009. It was kludgy to manage, painful to expand, and slow. Modern systems that can leverage flash, don't have file system or nested VM overheads etc are a LOT better idea.

@scottalanmiller More advanced raises eyebrow

Scribe is an object storage system (as is VSAN). I've seen the scale guys say Vmware copied them. They didn't I've seen the original R&D proposal and scale was using GPFS back in 2011.

https://creativemornings.com/talks/mike-monteiro--2/1

This video is something you should watch.

A entry level ASA is ~$500 and you can smartnet it.

Curious if anyone had seen this article that goes into Deal registration, and the other challenges of procurement in an enterprise. Personally I'm a big fan of deal registration when its done right, but I'm curious others thoughts on it.

http://www.jpaul.me/2015/07/what-ive-learned-about-it-purchasing/

Funny,

EPIC is the name of the ERP that Memorial Herman (Houston) uses. Think Texas Children's uses it also. Its one of the most popular platforms out there.

@DustinB3403 He said EMR also. Most EMR vendors only support VMware, bare Metal Linux, or AIX (Epic). I haven't seen a EMR vendor officially support Hyper-V.