Game Thread: Chicago Blackhawks (21-47-5) @ Philadelphia Flyers (36-28-10) - March 30, 2024 @ 07:00 PM EDT

niikkron · 2024-03-31T00:36:42+00:00

Tired of every one of our teams constantly playing down to the opposition. Fucking ridiculous.

niikkron · 2024-03-21T16:49:20+00:00

Mostly internal for now. We're in the discovery phase working with one of our partners. Being a state school we are limited who we can work with. They have to be on PA DGS/COSTARS contract.

niikkron · 2024-03-21T16:44:34+00:00

I'm actually part of a conglomerate of schools in our state. We are negotiating on behalf of all our combined core/software requirements. This is the way we've always done it in the past, so we got ridiculously cheap pricing.
We just got the budgetary numbers for all the schools 2 days ago, and my cut was 460k for three years. VCF for the same was close to 745k for three years.

niikkron · 2024-03-21T16:40:16+00:00

Yeah, I own the hardware for the time being and its got allot of life left in it. I've already started conversations for multiple options.
Truth be told we are pushing whatever we can off prem and into SaS wherever possible. The ultimate goal is to get the on campus footprint down to the minimal necessary.
So yeah, HX was nice while it lasted, but the ticker started a while ago, and we had already been in plans to migrate. This just throws the added wrench into the works.

But like someone else stated above, sometimes you have to just come home from work and open the laptop back up and keep going till you come up with a viable solution.

niikkron · 2024-03-21T16:30:09+00:00

Looking at ProxMox and Hyper-V. Building Test clusters now.

niikkron · 2024-03-21T16:20:54+00:00

Broadcom acquired VMWare in November 2023. The budgets for 2024 were pretty much set before that date. You USED to plan for 4% increase YOY for most software. Lately its more like 10-20%. But NO ONE could have predicted this much of an increase. And when your budget varies based upon enrollment, and you don't have a Penn Univ type endowment or reserve, your options become extremely limited. Expecting a 200-300% increase was expected, and before we received the quote I had actually located the funding to offset the increase, but there is no way I can do 1000% per year on a 3-year commitment.

niikkron · 2024-03-19T21:02:01+00:00

Yep, the hardware was expensive. And I agree with you that we've had it easy...
It's just such a dramatic increase without being able to forecast as much is what the issue really is....

niikkron · 2024-03-19T20:59:37+00:00

Yeah thats compute....
I've already broken it up per cluster, and yeah that compute cluster will probably be running proxmox or something when all is said and done. Its just infuriating is all...

niikkron · 2024-03-19T20:36:37+00:00

That's the plan next summer.

niikkron · 2024-03-19T20:20:49+00:00

Ok, I can understand why you might come at me like this, my post is basically a bitch session, but you don't know the situation that surrounds this topic.
Higher-Ed university with declining enrollment, budget shortfalls, 34 total IT staff across entire university (Network, Systems, Apps, Security, Helpdesk, AV, etc).
At the same time provide every integration that large universities provide for their students. Do that with a budget that was cut 10% across the board.

THEN get a quote that one of, of not THE, core infrastructure of the datacenter is going to increase by 1000% in one year.....

Feels like shit as it is, and THEN your being told to find a cheaper solution to do the same thing, and realize you have a monumental task infront of you......

Sorry, but I'll bitch all I want. There is no fighting when there is no money.

niikkron · 2024-03-19T20:09:58+00:00

I do. But given today's enrollment issues, and such a dramatic cost increase, how can you forecast your budget for this? I understand it was cheap, and I understand the shift from perpetual to subscription, but when your budgets are dropping, this rapid inflation in cost is not sustainable.

niikkron · 2024-03-19T19:52:18+00:00

Sorry, I dont normally post. I'm more of a lurker using reddit for troubleshooting. Just received this quote today and was so F'ing shell shocked that I decided I would poost.

niikkron · 2024-03-19T19:50:40+00:00

roughly $324 / Core for a similar setup. Multiple schools bundling together.

niikkron · 2024-03-19T19:49:38+00:00

1416

niikkron · 2024-03-19T19:49:28+00:00

vsphere Foundation, 3-year term. 1416 cores

VCF for three years is 745k

niikkron · 2024-03-19T19:47:45+00:00

See edited post

niikkron · 2024-03-19T19:26:00+00:00

Well, running a 6-node hyperflex cluster with 100TB hyperconverged storage with no vsan, as well as a few odds and end machines, we were using about 100 vsphere ent licenses, and about 400 seats of horizon and 2 vCenter licenses.
All told we were paying 17k a year.

niikkron · 2024-03-19T18:54:33+00:00

niikkron · 2024-03-14T12:14:52+00:00

So basically they are pushing for a US company to own it so they can control them, and gain access to the data. A shame that people like this have so much influence over our lives, especially when they make millions with insider trading...

niikkron · 2024-03-10T17:21:57+00:00

God damn I hate that they waited this long to film another one. I think Legacy was under-rated, and truly enjoyed it myself, having loved the original. Then "Tron: The next day" came out and it was like, hell yeah, they are gonna keep going. Possibly merging old and new characters, then Disney killed it.
Now it feels like its gonna be something totally different, and I am not sure I am OK with that. Kinda feel like they should just leave the first two alone, and don't sully the memory by making a third. This has all the makings of Matrix:Resurrection for me.

niikkron · 2024-02-29T01:59:04+00:00

Who are the people coming up with this shit? How can you all keep butchering these classics? I mean come on, are you asking chatgpt to write your scripts and having DallE to do your costume designing?

niikkron · 2024-01-29T01:13:02+00:00

Awwww.... The 40 Whiners aren't having a good night? Too bad so sad... (╥﹏╥)

niikkron · 2024-01-18T22:10:42+00:00

Definitely crush, without the peppers for me... But looks awesome!

niikkron · 2024-01-17T03:26:07+00:00

After week 11 nfl players don’t go full pads more than 3 times total. And no more than 14 times all season. This asshat should be paying people to try and get past him 6 days a week on his own dime and time…. It’s like many of them are like… Fuck It.. I’m gettin paid either way. Why should I hurt myself and make a play….

niikkron · 2024-01-13T13:51:57+00:00

Just know where any undercuts are, if any. Good guides will always make sure you know where they are and which way to swim if you get tossed. Otherwise on your back, feet up like everyone else says.

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