[Info-vax] One wonders why people bet their companies on Microsoft based products...

[Paul.Raulerson]

<amusement> Physically move the drive from a PC to a SAN?  Must be a tiny
little SAN. That would not work with say, my Shark, which requires drives to
be installed in 8 packs. :) 

-Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of JF Mezei
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 4:49 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] One wonders why people bet their companies on
> Microsoft based products...
> 
> BillPedersen wrote:
> 
> > When you have a potential "bet your company" event planned your first
> > action should be to audit the environment first - including backups,
> > as well as disaster recovery plans.
> 
> A former ISP of mine recently moved their mail store from their PC to a
> SAN solution. The guy doing it has a windows upbringing, not an
> enterprise one. (and the mail server is probably still a Windows box).
> 
> So, he just closed the mail service, and started to copy the data from
> one machine to the new SAN system. Oops! he then realised it would take
> something like 12 to 18 hours (can't remember the exact number). He had
> not considered doing a test run before on the live system to measure
> how
> long the copy would take. Had he done that, he may have started to
> ponder alternatives such as physically moving the drives to the SAN
> system and serving it from the SAN system to reduce downtime and build
> the new raid-5 (or whatever) as a mirror of the old disk so that he
> could continue to provide read-write service to the mail server while
> the raid-5 array was being built.
> 
> I've see that "windows" mentality in many places. Allowing a service
> call on a server in the middle of the day, not thinking of the fact
> that
> such a service call yp add a new tape drive might not actually work.
> (in
> the end, it had taken that company over 2 weeks and many visits to get
> it working, not the 10 minutes that the manager had believed it would
> take). This was not for a windows machine, it was an old Data General
> one. So it isn't so much about "windows" per say, but rather the
> mentality around windows such as "a reboot will fix everything" or "it
> only takes 20 minutes to re-install windows so it is quicker to do that
> than to find and fix the problem".
> 
> 
> 
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