It's not a cloud, strictly speaking. We're under pressure to remove all physical servers from our campus and move to virtual, which will be powered by VMWare and various series of blades (yes, I know they're servers as well but they're obviously more geared towards virtualisation and high-density components than a traditional server) in two new, redundant datacentres or "pods", as we're calling them. At that point the backups will be handled via the "Previous Versions" feature in Windows for one-offs, or SAN snapshots or tape archives (last resort) for anything bare metal.

So when I say "cloud", I just mean it'll all be virtual, we won't really know where they're hosted but they'll still be physically on our campus somewhere in one of these two geographically separate datacentres, backed by equally separate SAN storage with replication. It's not a cloud in the sense I'm chucking them out on the Internet where they might disappear, get locked in to a vendor, etc.

Right then so you will still have physical control of the data storage on campus......do you think we need a new buzz word for this type of clound but not a cloud?????.......

..Fog.....perhaps????...... ........mist???.....

..hhhmmmmm.......calling IT where is the data??...don't worry sir it's in the mist......mist of what?....time????......

I personally won't have physical control as I'm only departmental staff, this project is higher level. But physical control will still be retained on the campus as a whole, rather than dumping it all on the likes of Amazon or Rackspace so yeah, it needs a new term. I quite like mist

I personally won't have physical control as I'm only departmental staff, this project is higher level. But physical control will still be retained on the campus as a whole, rather than dumping it all on the likes of Amazon or Rackspace so yeah, it needs a new term. I quite like mist

HAHA........

Mist it is then......as you can touch mist if need be where as a cloud is alot further out of reach

Good anacromyn as well..

Multiple

Interconnected

Storage

Terminals

M.I.S.T

I would go with fog - you know your data is near but you can't see it.

HAHA........

Mist it is then......as you can touch mist if need be where as a cloud is alot further out of reach

Good anacromyn as well..

Multiple

Interconnected

Storage

Terminals

M.I.S.T

Interesting if you translate Mist into German.

/waits for someone to bring up the old Coffee Cup Holder/CD Drive story......... :think:

Genuinely have one of these, will get a pic tomorrow!

Interesting if you translate Mist into German.

HeHe......Carp, dung, rubbish........so M.I.S.T works in German as well....... .......so thats the new "all round" computer buzz word for servers/data storage that is not a full on "cloud"....

Well this is one of our tidier cabs!

Meh... not bad

British split-arse mechanics are the finest split-arse mechanics in the World !

The best summation of our national aura that I've ever seen was delivered by a German lady being interviewed by a BBC News 24 reporter at the start of this recent bout of snowy weather. Which went something like this:-

STUDIO: "And here's (Reporter X) with stories of how people across the South-East have dealt with the conditions"

Screen shows a diminuitive, plumpish young lady in a bobble hat.

REPORTER: "What was your journey to work like today ?"

Lady goes on to recant how she got up two hours early to go to work to allow for delays and then waited 2 hours for a train and had to walk the last mile from the station because the buses were full/delayed.

REPORTER: "What do you think could be done to improve this situation ?"

INTERVIEWEE: (With a slight German accent) "Well, look (Turns round and points at the light snow covering on the road). Its hardly snowed . . . . On the Continent we. . . . . Phhhhttttt . . . . .Its Britain !"

Clip edit cuts it short and viewers are returned to the studio.

Nick

That's *tidy*.

Excuse a non-expert for saying so, but, as depicted, won't some people be sitting/standing in their own light i.e. back to the Window. Not Good ?

Nick

Meh... not bad

Yep, pretty decent. Bit of cable management missed at the top and I'd have mounted the PDU at the rear, but apart from that.... :p

Yep, pretty decent. Bit of cable management missed at the top and I'd have mounted the PDU at the rear, but apart from that.... :p

Surely it's easier to have the PDU at the front for easy access? Oooerrr.

Surely it's easier to have the PDU at the front for easy access? Oooerrr.

Yeah, easier for people to unplug.......hence why it should always be at the back!

I had forgotten about this one.....This is what happens when anyone has access to the cab:

....and after a weekend of Overtime :

Yeah, easier for people to unplug.......hence why it should always be at the back!

Lol if anyone else touches my cabs I will personally punch them in the face :p

I had forgotten about this one.....This is what happens when anyone has access to the cab:

Niiice

That's pretty much what our old premises was like when I inherited it from my predecessor.

Imagine that, but in a loft, that can be -20 or +60 degrees

I had forgotten about this one.....This is what happens when anyone has access to the cab:

....and after a weekend of Overtime :

Just a week-end??????........bloody hell... where do you start???......

...reminds me of when I got the building my business is in...lifted up the suspended ceiling tiles to find the electric wires looking like a birds nest (and very dangerous)........I just flipped the main switches OFF on all three fuse boards then wearing proper gloves and using big cutters just cut the cables out...... then ripped all the fuses out and wired one power circuit and one lighting circuit as a temp measure.....frightening!!!!!!..I even had to have the main incomer re-done.....I was suprised the place hadn't gone up in flames... ........all nice and tidy now thou'

Just a week-end??????........bloody hell... where do you start???......

Remove it all and start again usually. Can be quite therapeutic really

And I thought it was just me that had photos of cabinets!

Surely it's easier to have the PDU at the front for easy access? Oooerrr.

Not really. Just open the back of the cab if you need access to power. Plus you don't waste U height on the front face (assuming non-full depth rack equipment)

Yeah, easier for people to unplug.......hence why it should always be at the back!

Lol if anyone else touches my cabs I will personally punch them in the face :p

Locked cabinets FTW

Nothing unplugged, no punching required :yes:

Good few years ago I was a service engineer with a national company looking after telecoms stuff. One call was to a well known theme park ,where they had problems. Found the contact, and after a bit of detective work found the comms room , behind a false wall, in a sort of faulse cave .Inside ,what a difference .Boxes/junk thrown everywhere. Getting to the kit was like being on an assault course ,and the comms room seemed to be some thing thought up as a last resort .

Niiice

That's pretty much what our old premises was like when I inherited it from my predecessor.

Imagine that, but in a loft, that can be -20 or +60 degrees

Often we used the patch panels to run comms. As a self employed bloke, I loved to find one like that ,with extensions not working.Most times ,they'd not bothered to look at the number on the socket,and moved the wrong lead .Easiest fault ever . We used to designate colours for leads, but as we all know, customers never do .

Edited 5 March, 201214 yr by VWD

What are everyones thoughts on a File server running 4 SAS drives in RAID0? Genius or what? Yes is is dead now as well.

Depends what's talking to it.

Day to day useage, plain asking for data loss.

I've seen a backup tape drive, where the tape was left in the drive and just ran nightly.

Asked where the other tapes were kept, got told, oh no we just use the one that came with the drive.

Luckily this was a few years ago and they never needed to restore when I knew of them.

I do wonder if they're still going.

Edited 6 March, 201214 yr by cheezemonkhai

I've seen a backup tape drive, where the tape was left in the drive and just ran nightly.

Asked where the other tapes were kept, got told, oh no we just use the one that came with the drive.

That's amusing. Like that one!

Once saw an exchange server where the only backup done was a nightly copy of the hot databases to a USB drive left plugged in sat ontop of the server

Today I was presented with a Toshiba laptop to 'fix'.

There's mould growing between several keys..........