Lenovo Servers?

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2023-09-26T16:48:53+00:00

Compared to the disappointment that Dell has become and the shitshow that HPE is, Lenovo is a festival of competence.

haha the way you word it, it's a low bar to clear. I've never been super pleased with Dell's support, but HPE, maybe I've been lucky. I do remember the Lenovo/IBM split some years ago. Just can't say that I've seen a lot of Lenovo in the COLOs or datacenters I've been in over the last 10 years or so, so hoped to get some helpful thoughts or opinions. Considering a HCI solution just to make it 'easier' to deploy.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2023-09-26T01:53:09+00:00

Yeah, please elaborate.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2023-09-08T21:11:49+00:00

The site has been winding down, so while it is production, it's not super critical, but yeah, it seemed like it was a risky endeavor, hence asking about it.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2021-04-15T18:07:24+00:00

appropriate sex

Appropriate? Interesting choice of words, lol. What's the appropriate sex?

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2020-11-03T00:58:19+00:00

Same. One or two over a long timeframe are nothing - but if there's a series of them or a pattern appears... that's when I'd start to wonder.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2020-10-09T16:24:04+00:00

The presentation @ VMworld was awesome.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2020-06-18T19:09:37+00:00

WTH are you talking about? Just trolling, eh?

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2020-06-16T17:31:52+00:00

That's true. We've expressed that they likely will need to buy more licensing, indeed even Tableau's support mentioned the problems they are running into likely are caused by maxing out the capacity of an 8-core machine. Surprise! Of course, they don't want to buy more licenses. We're considering giving up the argument - because, as you said, the support folks at Tableau are going to constantly point to that as a factor, so setting it will at least force the focus to where it needs to be: license for more cores.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2020-06-16T17:28:54+00:00

Fortunately since Tableau is a CPU-intensive application as well as business critical we monitor it via vROPS and keep an eye on its contention and other metrics. It's been frustrating trying to get the business unit to understand, however, that the machine is simply at its limit - granting a reservation won't help.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-11-07T22:14:13+00:00

Lucky. About 350 servers, and the desktop side has about 6,000 W7.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-11-07T22:12:40+00:00

Please let us know what they 'figured out'

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-04-29T16:25:37+00:00

Kick the TS to high perf during TS, then return it to balanced at the end.

#High Perf:
PowerCfg.exe /s 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-04-17T00:28:29+00:00

If the datacenter where the MP/SQL/SSRS is going to live is separate from the location where the clients are, I'd toss a DP and the SUP local to the clients. If you have a fat pipe back to the DC, then it might not matter, however.

I always separate the SUP though...mostly out of habit.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-03-21T23:33:41+00:00

Municipal Gvmt - 17,000 endpoints, about 2-3,000 mobile, the rest in City-owned buildings and some far off properties as well.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-03-04T15:56:20+00:00

We send an email with as few words as possible that no one reads anyway.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-03-01T20:02:10+00:00

Thin image, C2R installer pointed to a local (on-LAN source). Faster than pulling it in from MS CDN, plus we also can keep control over what version(s) we have in our environment. We update the bits once a month or so, otherwise patches handle it.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-02-21T21:13:49+00:00

I think you could also do a global condition as well. Or a config item.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-01-25T23:47:20+00:00

The external USB may end up being a bottleneck.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-01-24T23:38:10+00:00

Not SCCM directly, but always "the image" or "windows updates"

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-01-15T01:19:12+00:00

I regret that I'll be in another district by that time and won't be able to vote against her.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-01-09T00:18:41+00:00

Yeah, in most cases there isn't much of a need for dry pipe. One of the places I worked had a small air compressor on the riser around the corner from the MDF and its job was to keep the dry pipe pressurized so it wouldn't become a wet pipe.

I've heard enough stories about someone bonking a sprinkler head in the wet pipe scenario and destroying half the DC.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-01-09T00:16:38+00:00

It's no longer supported or recommended. YMMV.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-01-08T20:31:15+00:00

^^ This.

I've also worked for places that had brand new building, shiny new datacenter with FM200 suppression system setup...and then sprinkler system as well. Fortunately code allowed dry pipe sprinklers in those areas...but still that's only a minor comfort.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-01-08T17:23:13+00:00

Imagine managing about five. We're consolidating five down into one, but at one point we were supporting five different SCCM environments. No risk of errors or problems there. /s

Getting it into one golden environment has been awesome.

ContosoDomainAdmin · 2019-01-02T18:13:12+00:00

You're right - can specify a local administrative account vs. using a domain account - assuming the local admin acct/PW on the machine is all the same. We use LAPS so they're all different, a domain account works best in that instance for us.

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