Harry IT Problems

Harried IT Director at a Global Financial Services FIrm

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Arrived at #EMCworld. It's time to tell EMC we're considering other vendors with newer technology. Better technology.

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Getting ready to travel to Las Vegas for #EMCworld. Don't blame me; I wanted to take the Nimble #AdaptiveFlashChallenge.

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Yikes! http://t.co/4FPMxUZTwY Maybe this wasn't such a great time to be adding more EMC arrays. #I'veMadeAHugeMistake

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This #AllFlashArray works fine with our database; wish it worked half as well with our other mission-critical apps :(

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Still on hold with technical support. Oh if only we had Nimble's InfoSight analytics! :(

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Please, please, please, my poor little #FlashOnlyArray. Please finish replicating so I can go home for the weekend! :(

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Hmmm. I thought I was supposed to get tons of IOPS with this #AllFlashArray. Time to look at the #NimbleFlashChallenge

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Oh no! More problems with the #AllFlashArray. Wish I had taken those Nimble folks up on the #AdaptiveFlashChallenge.

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Looks like performance is degrading the more this #FlashOnly box fills up. I'm ready to take the #AdaptiveFlashChallenge

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Dedupe rate dropped when I added VMs. Now I need budget for more flash. Maybe it’s time for the #AdaptiveFlashChallenge

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I’m liking the performance on this #AllFlashArray, but not sure how we can afford to scale out.

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Hey, #AllFlashArray! What the $#*@ is a meta / aggregate / pool / slice? Where's my data?

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What?! I have to call the support line just to update the firmware on my $#*&^ #AllFlashArray?

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Working Saturday, again. My mixed workload data isn’t deduping as much as I saw in the #AllFlash POC :(

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Oh well, pizza for supper again. Spent a week in training and I’m still working out the quirks in this #AllFlashArray. :(

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Our new #AllFlashArray is fast, but now I have a whole other #StorageSilo to manage. Bummer.

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Yikes. Almost 11pm, and still configuring this new flash-only array. Wish we had looked more closely at #AdaptiveFlash