Who the fuck builds these things?

[serinde]

Now the OTHER file server, the one that does everything that is not mail, has fallen and will not get up. I, of course, am on first pager. BECAUSE I KNOW A GODDAM THING ABOUT NETAPPS.

Comments

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

I know that you're supposed to have a service contract and phone-home monitoring that'll have them onsite fixing it for you before you knew yourself that it was degraded or busted.

Might we be discovering the joy that is not having a service contract?

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the contract is a large part of the point if this sort of hardware. Without it you might as well just buy a Thumper.

(Which is not a particularly bad route and something we've been agitating for ever since they were first released. 24TB raw for AU$50k, yes please!)

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, the role in question has been filled by a NetApp since before ZFS was conceived; the hardware might have been a bit more pointful then.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

“discovering”?