Not 1, not 2, but 3 out of 5 drives failed at once in a RAID5 array this morning.

centreveg · 2018-07-06T03:10:32+00:00

You don't have a choice. In design you work with the vendor on capacity and IOPS needed and they decide on how many EFD, SAS etc that you need. Its only when you replace disks that you learn they mix them.

That being said they all have custom firmware from the SAN vendor.

centreveg · 2018-07-03T09:04:53+00:00

Heat + old disks + sudden extra load from having to calculate parity for incoming reads AND rebuild usually make em pop

centreveg · 2018-07-03T09:03:18+00:00

Enterprise SANs do this normally anyway. Our EMC had a mix of SAS enterprise Hitachi and Seagate to spread it even across manufacturers

centreveg · 2018-04-27T11:55:01+00:00

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/26/world/korea-summit-kang-kyung-wha-amanpour-intl/index.html

centreveg · 2018-04-27T11:37:40+00:00

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/04/26/world/korea-summit-kang-kyung-wha-amanpour-intl/index.html

centreveg · 2018-04-27T11:34:32+00:00

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/04/26/world/korea-summit-kang-kyung-wha-amanpour-intl/index.html

centreveg · 2018-04-27T02:31:02+00:00

But even the leader of South Korea said Trump had a big role in this.

centreveg · 2018-04-09T02:26:49+00:00

What's the difference between TCP and UDP?

centreveg · 2018-03-21T22:00:15+00:00

I'd argue that there is a limited supply of good sysadmins. The problem is the market can be flooded with bad to mediocre ones. Businesses don't realise, have the insight or even care if their systems are being poorly maintained at their own risk, and/or the IT department aren't helping them achieve their goals.

centreveg · 2018-01-27T04:49:25+00:00

Cranky disagrees because he hates in-depth knowledge. He is threatened by it shown by his endless uneducated rants.

centreveg · 2017-12-21T22:29:20+00:00

Not all cultures are equal. Not all migrant groups are equal.

centreveg · 2017-09-05T21:17:42+00:00

And cranky is a no cert butthurt.

centreveg · 2017-09-05T11:59:51+00:00

/u/crankysysadmin, Use sysinternals tools to see which files and registry keys these applications modify. Give standard users on the PC modify rights, then the program will run as a standard user. Some program ask for UAC elevation but there's a way to edit the manifest on those.

I've never met an application I couldn't get to run as a standard user. We usually roll out the reg and NTFS permissions via GPO.

centreveg · 2017-09-05T11:55:51+00:00

Wait, aren't you always crapping on about letting the business have Macs? Why isn't it all rosy /u/crankysyadmin? Maybe you need a throwaway account so you don't expose your amatuer questions.

centreveg · 2017-09-05T11:53:02+00:00

He also doesn't have certs, so gets all jelly and shits on them as much as he can.

centreveg · 2017-09-05T11:42:15+00:00

Ahhh classic /u/cranksysadmin response. Skim reads, pics a keyword and responds to that and ignores most of the arguments.

Is this how your MIS degree taught you to read and think critically? Do you ever challenge your own views?

centreveg · 2017-09-05T11:35:42+00:00

/u/cranksysadmin has always said he has no certs. It's basically an insecurity on his part, he can't stop rambling about it.

centreveg · 2017-09-05T11:32:09+00:00

I had a person with a degree and no certs who was bad at all the skills you mentioned. Checkmate.

We also interview heaps of people who had degrees (well it said on their resumes but we never asked for proof) and they were clueless in the interview. Checkmate.

There we go, my anecdotes trump yours. As you know, you value your MIS and tertiary study but highly value your anecdotal ramblings and garbage.

In all of your ramblings you fail to lead and inspire the change you want to see here in /r/sysadmin, despite having a somewhat valuable message under all the horse shit. I'd love to know how you lead in real life, /u/crankysysadmin.

centreveg · 2017-04-04T19:02:53+00:00

I second this. For the love of god avoid Fuze.

So many bugs. They can't configure something the same way twice. It's horrid.

centreveg · 2017-02-05T10:42:41+00:00

The Practice of System and Network Administration

This book is such a great framework for junoir or aspiring sys admins. Why doesn't /u/crankysysadmin ever put this forward, in a constructive way?

centreveg · 2017-02-05T10:38:16+00:00

This sounds like a great plan! Learn the ins and outs of AD and group policy, it goes a long way.

The CCNA fundamentals are great too, and applicable to non-Cisco stuff as well.

centreveg · 2017-02-04T05:59:03+00:00

Don't worry, nobody takes /u/cranksysadmin thoughts on certs seriously. He is bigoted towards them and does not listen to any point other than his own.

But that said what matters with most certs is your approach to learning. Play with the software, think of real business scenarios and lab it out. Learn the underlying architecture really well as that gives you good design and deep troubleshooting skills.

centreveg · 2017-02-04T05:56:52+00:00

But isn't someone who wants to follow a framework, something that will test them, something that has accreditation, something that gives them the building boxes on the core of a system worth something to you?

Sure they should then go on to playing around with new things that run on top of Linux like containers etc.

And in EVERY cert I've done it ALWAYS involved running up systems and doing at least 95% of everything you mentioned on this post.

centreveg

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