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Old 01-14-2016, 04:17 PM
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I'm a System Admin for a SMB healthcare company. Most of our capital is in software, as is my daily torment.

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Old 01-14-2016, 04:22 PM
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Alright alright, you win that round! I'd show pics of our server rack and call system at work but yours is much more impressive!

Edit: So, if you can tell us without having to kill us after, what do you do for work that gets you around that kind of equipment?
I used to have about triple that amount of servers at my previous job, it was before the age of virtualization. Each of these servers now runs 6-7 virtual machines, which makes the physical footprint much smaller.

I am the VP of IT for a regional insurance carrier. I spend most of my time developing software but I also deal with infrastructure - networking, servers, disaster planning and recovery, security etc. The buck stops here when it comes to anything IT related. When I get home last thing I want to do is look at another computer, so I wrench on the cubs, work on the lawn etc.
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Old 01-14-2016, 04:30 PM
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Ya'll got some fun stuff there! I used to work at a local Computer Company/Internet Provider and one of my favorite parts was going into the server room. They had about a dozen full size server racks full of servers, routers, gateways, telcom equipment, and whatever else the mind can imagine not to mention being climate controlled, as well. I have some pics stashed somewhere I'll have to dig for when I get home.

Nowadays I am less involved in the IT world (at least at work). I basically get to be front line tech support for a 76 room living community. The room behind my office has all the land lines, the T1 lines in, the VOIP setup, internet gateways throughout building come back into here, our CNA building IP phones come back through here; the whole kit and caboodle. I'm not "technically" allowed to touch much of it but I'm a child of the "what they don't know won't hurt 'em" philosophy If I had a dollar for every time I've saved a call to corporate to fix something, I could take a week off.

Apparently we're in the process of a system upgrade adding in local network storage, new backups, battery backups, and more I don't know about. I keep getting random packages each week but I don't get to open 'em. Kinda excited to see what the company sprung for!
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I'm a System Admin for a SMB healthcare company. Most of our capital is in software, as is my daily torment.
Uh oh. Anything workers comp related?
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Old 01-14-2016, 04:33 PM
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I used to have about triple that amount of servers at my previous job, it was before the age of virtualization. Each of these servers now runs 6-7 virtual machines, which makes the physical footprint much smaller.

I am the VP of IT for a regional insurance carrier. I spend most of my time developing software but I also deal with infrastructure - networking, servers, disaster planning and recovery, security etc. The buck stops here when it comes to anything IT related. When I get home last thing I want to do is look at another computer, so I wrench on the cubs, work on the lawn etc.
Wow, that is very awesome! Didn't know we had a big shot among us So when you guys upgrade, do you get to keep or play with the old stuff? That'd be my favorite part

Virtualization has come a long way and you're right; with the power machines have nowadays you can replace a dozen older machines with one new one and still have horsepower left to spare. Amazing what has come about in the last 10 years. SSD's with multiple gigabyte transfer rates, multicore CPU's, triple & quad channel memory, virtualization, 10gbe, heck wireless networking that has more bandwidth than I'll probably ever need!

Anywho, thanks for the sharing
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So when you guys upgrade, do you get to keep or play with the old stuff?
Some of it we do, some of it goes to a local college that refurbishes computers for students that can't afford one, some of it goes straight to Goodwill.
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Nowadays I am less involved in the IT world (at least at work). I basically get to be front line tech support for a 76 room living community.
Hat off to you, there's no job harder than dealing with people. Though older folks are a lot more polite.
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Hat off to you, there's no job harder than dealing with people. Though older folks are a lot more polite.
You haven't spent much time around the elderly, have you? Most of them are just fine, very polite and some great people, in fact. But like every group of people, you have your stinkers. Except the stinkers here have literally nothing to do all day except watch TV, eat, sleep, and "voice their concerns". It doesn't matter to them that I have to replace a PTAC, fix a leaking pipe, replace a control board in another PTAC, figure out why the internet is down, and get the kitchen walk in cooler up and running again, they can't get channel 34 and they're missing Wheel of Fortune, dangit! Things have never been quite that bad but the point is still valid

That's probably why I spend my off time when I'm not doing something with the wife working on computers or Cubs or home audio/video; it's a quiet, solitary way to unwind and just feels good when you can make something work without the pressure of 81 residents plus another 50+ staff waiting on you. Ahh the simpler times in life when I wasn't on call 24/7
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Not exactly... surgeons office. Everything is in-house for our business--we do not outsource any IT function (big perk--job security). There are two of us IT guys to cover 55 employees spanning 4 offices. We're heavily virtualized as well--two hosts running about 25 virtual servers, but we still have a couple of physical servers around.

We run a 3-year cycle for employee devices and a 5-year cycle for servers as far as replacements go. Most devices then become "IT Toys" when they're decommissioned. We use them as test beds for vetting changes and for creating experimental devices.
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Ok ok I can redeem myself. $150,000 worth of equipment that's mine to play with at work
j4c11 - Got some orange lights there to deal with there don't you?

I work for an IT company - specifically handling projects for migrations and integration of software. We install VMware everywhere - some really dense installations have 80+ VMs running on the hardware which means that the hardware is super beefy and attached to a SAN with N+1 redundancy on the ESXi side. This is for software development shops to develop software and perform regression analysis on each release and for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure clients who use thin clients where all computing work is performed on server infrastructure and the computer is more of a consumption device. We also do data recovery and have a bunch of cool toys to recovery from failed RAID arrays, Tapes or flash media; think of it as a mini On-Track shop.

Some of the most interesting work i've done is to write interfaces (for medical software of all things) to allow different programs that were never designed to talk to each other to exchange data. Also we play a fair bit with telephony, in fact we take care of a 24x7x365 call center with offices all over the country which can get interesting when things go sideways!

Sorry i think this is off topic for the OP; i have a fairly basic higher end desktop and a pretty worn out Dell Latitude laptop (wear and tear from being in and out of the bag all day) but nothing really all that fancy. I don't need that much to connect to the stuff i'm working on which is exponentially more powerful than my computer.
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