Boss of Me

[samwize.livejournal.com]

VP: "We want you to price out a new exchange server for us."

Samwize: "Ok. What kind of load are we expecting?"

VP: "We don't know."

S: "Uh...Ok. Are you going to want it rack mountable or tower?"

VP: "Investigate the '72U' rack system."

(If you don't know rack mounting, this exchange was isomorphic to "Do you want to wear shoes or sandles?" "Hmm. Find out how much size 17 socks cost." A 'U' is a standard unit of height. 72U is a size not a brand.)

*sigh*

Comments

[sheryls.livejournal.com]

ahahha. once where i used to work, we told one of our callcenter people to go in and find rack X, and reboot the 4U server on it. "which server?" he said. "the only 4U server in the rack." and he kept saying "there is no 4U server in the rack!" and we're like.."THERE BETTER BE!" ..he thought the NAME OF THE SERVER was "For You" o.O

we're like..why would we name a server "For you"?!?!?

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

I would name the next server in that rack "This one, dumbass" or "You're a fuckwit".

"I swear, it's the hostname of the box. ^_^_^_^_^"

[xforge.livejournal.com]

(goes off to rename the Marketing server WE'RE VERY FULL OF OURSELVES)

[inahandbasket]

bwahahahaha!
pointy-haired boss for the win!

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a 72U rack be about 18 feet tall?

I have a luser that's like that; fortunately he doesn't get to order servers. He insisted I run defrag and cleanup on a system I was repurposing and it never did run right again after that; we had to wipe it completely and reimage it. It ran fine before I did any of the things he asked for....

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

that's what i was thinking... lol

[jarad.livejournal.com]

There is a company called Rackable (http://www.rackable.com/) which builds half-depth servers, so you can fit two servers back-to-back in 1U of space. My understanding is that Google use some of their kit to reduce rent costs where they have placed servers in commercial datacentres.

Not really much point for a single Exchange server though.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a 72U rack be about 18 feet tall?

1U is 1 7/8", so "only" 10 1/2 feet tall.

[eikichi-onizuka.livejournal.com]

I think we'd have to build a new office for a 72U server.

[flainn.livejournal.com]

A 72U Exchange server? Wow, I bet you could get a lot of CPUs in there.

[mbrez.livejournal.com]

Spec out 72U worth of servers for it anyways...who knows, you may get a hell of a system if they're dumb :)

[jecook]

lol. They'd probably crap their pants at a megabuck server, though.

I priced out an excahnge server at my ex-work once, for a cap of 500 users. the licenseing cost ran to around 50K. the server it'd need to run on I specced out at around 5 or 6K for the bare iron.

[kalium.livejournal.com]

72U? What are they doing, migrating the entire mail infrastructure of a Fortune 500 company to Exchange?

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