Down the rabbit hole

[tuba-man.livejournal.com]

I love cleaning up other people's messes...take this project to provide a client with some redundancy:

• Hyper-V
• software iSCSI through Windows Storage Server and MPIO
• MS-SQL Enterprise Edition
• Windows Server Failover Clustering
• Data Protection Manager with storage provided by Iron Mountain

Not much of a big deal, right?  Standard-ish MS stuff.  (blah blah, I know, piles of MS - it makes moving from their existing infrastructure relatively painless though) Initial research into the technologies made it look doable, and if done well, stable.  This guy's got the relevant MS certs, he can handle it.  Hell, we even paid for some of them.  "How's it going?"  I'd say through the project.  "Right on schedule!" you'd proudly proclaim.  I'd check your running documentation, everything looked kosher.  So, riddle me this, Batman:  How do you spend dozens of hours putting this project together and supposedly labbing it out without ever thinking about issues like these?

• How the hell do you plan on gracefully resolving the circle of dependencies created by having the domain controller running as a VM on one of the WSFC clusters?  (Seriously - DC on VM using shared iSCSI storage with failover means DC relies on HyperV which relies on iSCSI which relies on MPIO, the last three of which rely on various bits of WSFC, which all fucking relies on the goddamned domain controllers.)
• What is the deal with trying to give clients brand new, untested, un-labbed software?  (you never asked for a single trial account for any off-site storage services, did you?)
• Did it ever occur to you that it MIGHT be important to mention the fact that every single piece of this project requires Enterprise edition everything?  OR did you just not bother finding out?  At least you managed to get Server 2k8 Enterprise mentioned ONCE, somewhere in the middle of that stack of paperwork.
• What in the everloving fuck were you thinking telling our client we could do this for less than $20k when the licensing/hardware costs alone are almost that much?  For that matter, what the fuck gave you the idea that your job description includes sales of any sort?

I still can't believe you used this project as your personal playground.  In retrospect, I should have expected it.  It was a mistake to trust you.  It was a mistake to not babysit you through every working moment.  It was a mistake to pay you.  This client paid both of our salaries, and we're probably losing them over this.  As hard as it was to finally drop the ax, I have no remorse.  Now I'm doing both of our jobs and interviewing your replacement at the expense of my personal life.  Hopefully we'll get someone in here who actually earns the money they make.

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

Comments

[jecook]

... Holy hell.

Using a VM as a secondary DC, that's OK. Using a DC running in a VM as the FSMO, HELLS NO.

Of the 8 DCs we have at work, two are being cycled out as soon as we move some niggling dependant services from them, two are still physical boxes as they replaced the two being cycled out, and the rest are all VMs. The FSMO? one of the physical boxes.

And this is the reason why no one respects MS certs. *shakes head sadly*

[juliet316]

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Wrong post.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

I'm only putting a simple AD system together at the house, and even I know that the primary box should be a separate physical device to insure the most base level services don't fall over if/when the VM system goes tits-up. Imagine what I'd know if I, say, had any actual certs in this!

[utoxin.livejournal.com]

Why, you'd know how to reboot the box, and play solitaire! Imagine the havoc you could wreak!

[bothunter.livejournal.com]

Minesweeper Certified Solitaire Expert!