Diary of a Network Geek

The trials and tribulations of a Certified Novell Engineer who's been stranded in Houston, Texas.

2/21/2014

Weekend Plans

Filed under: Geek Work,MicroSoft,Pressgram,The Dark Side — Posted by the Network Geek during the Hour of the Monkey which is mid-afternoon or 4:23 pm for you boring, normal people.
The moon is Waning Gibbous


Guess who’s spending the weekend upgrading the company’s main server?

Finally after dealing with an aging server for too long, we’re upgrading.  And, not a minute too soon, either.  I have the joy of migrating Active Directory from a Windows 2003 server to a Windows 2012 server.  Not to mention, I get to migrate printing services, an iSCSI array connection, DNS and DHCP.  Wee!  What fun!

Well, I suppose that’s why I get the “big bucks”, right?  A system administrator’s work is never done!

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10/7/2003

HyperSCSI

Filed under: Geek Work,News and Current Events — Posted by the Network Geek during the Hour of the Hare which is in the early morning or 7:26 am for you boring, normal people.
The moon is Waning Gibbous

No, I am not making that up.

Until fairly recently, I was pretty ignorant of clustering hardware and software. But, thanks to on-the-job experience, that’s changing! So, now, I know about SANs, and Network Attached Storage, and even iSCSI. Now, there’s something new: HyperSCSI. According to this article on Byte and Switch, it’s the next Big Thing. Only, no one knows about it. It’s been around for a bit and is very similar to iSCSI, though it has some different advantages and disadvantages. In any case, you can impress your co-workers by reading the story and casually mentioning it around the water cooler. (Do people still talk around water coolers? I always end up shouting in the the server room.)

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