RE: Still not good enough
"....Customers are normally very happy when I leave a project...." yeah, happiest if you leave before the project finishes more likely!
"....Again the "IT cowboy" favorite remark, "Less than five minutes on .."...." Well, if you actually knew anything about hp-ux you'd know it was that easy, but seeing as you only know AIX that's not really surprising. Oh, I know you pretend to know about hp-ux, but it is patently obvious you haven't a clue, so stop the charade now.
"....Now that is also one of the things we do, and actually make quite good money on...." Yeah, cleaning up IBM AIX servers - what a surprise! You admitted you had to send out for hp-ux resource so you obviously don't have the skills.
"....Well I don't recall having meet you..." I can think of a few reasons why that would be. Firstly, despite your God complex, I have to inform you not even Denmark revolves around you. I'm sure there are quite a few Danish companies you haven't worked with, let alone European ones, and the biggest project I worked on was government related so probably above your paygrade. As to you having met many cowboys, all I can say is you work in outsourcing, so I can't say I'm surprised you find your field so poorly skilled.
"....Ehh.. have you looked inside at HP blade chassis backplane recently ? Blades are generally crap, no matter the vendor...." Yes, I have looked, actually, seeing as I have actually used the hp blades kit, unlike you. And I know the hp designs have redundant power paths, use only discrete companents on the backplane, and can survive power issues. You obviously just don't know anything about blades. Not surprised an IBMer and Power fanboi would want to diss them seeing as hp are the number one blades vendor.
"...Again one of the reasons I like to work here. People actually have skills and know what they are talking about...." So why do you have to send out for resources then? How come I was doing work hp-ux in Denmark if you're all so skilled and clever?
Jesper, all you do is avoid the questions, not answer them. Your fixation with saying that the hypervisor cures all issues is just stupid, how is going to cure a power issue? If the power subsystem goes on one part of an IBM system and it is not electrically isolated then it can affect other parts of the server, which means that your clever hypervisor simply dies along with all the instances running on it. One power issue, you lose all the servers, got that? You can talk male bovine manure to the cows come home and no-one is going to believe that the hypervisor will survive a loss of power! What, does it run in some extra dimension where IBM magic beans keep it running? Rediculous!
This is a key high-availability feature of the cell-board designs in hp Integrity, that they can lose a cell completely and it doesn't affect the others. With Power, if you have electrical problems with one processorbook then it can affect all of them. And if you're sharing I/O as you often do with a hypervisor, then the loss of one I/O component can affect all your OS instances. With hp Integrity the I/O is owned by each electrically isolated cell or npar, so a problem in one npar doesn't affect the others.
"....And you seem to forget that POWER hardware has even more hotswapable and redundant parts that your favorite HP itanium servers...." Yeah, please do list them, otherwise we might conclude you were just talking more male bovine manure as usual.
".....Yeah right. Just buy the whole HP Infrastructure solution ...." Apart from the fact some of it comes bundled in with the OS, it also seems to be very popular with us customers. The superior management capabilities of hp-ux is just one of the reasons it is taking the high-end deals from AIX. We seem to value an integrated stack rather than the colection of individual and often incompatible IBM tools. The first thing we do with new IBM servers is set them up to run with hp monitoring software as it just works better.
".....you like the HP Itanium solution, cause it is your meal ticket...." This coming from the outsourcer that specialises in IBM Power....
"....And no thanx I don't like using 'cowboys' for POC's. I know your type...." I doubt if you have worked with a company the size of ours for a start, let alone that I can comfortably predict you never will. For a start, I do mission critical work, so out of your league already. And then, when I do look for people to work with me on projects, they actually have to know something about the technology, and not just repeat IBM FUD and quote IBM labs benchmarks. And if I did come work in Denmark it would probably be on an hp-ux project, which means you also wouldn't be involved as you not only don't know squat about hp tech but you already admitted you have to send out for hp-ux skills. Can't say I'm upset.
"...And I have no use for people who can't/won't admit they are wrong...." Put yourself back on the shelf, then, as so far you've not only been proven wrong but also avoided most of the questions. Beyond useless!
"....I like to win, and do 89-90% of the time, cause I am very good at what I do...." Yeah, in the tiny little Danish IT market, where you have to send out abroad for skilled people. Nothing like being a big fish in a tiny puddle. And I often meet consultants from Denmark and other Scandinavian countries here in London, who say they moved to London not just to get jobs but because they wanted to work in challenging roles just not available back home. I guess it was just easier for you to stay at home and work on what there was in Denmark.
"...But also cause I pick the right tools and the right people to work with..." So apart from the times EDS hand you your butt on a plate? But I can see you do sometimes work with the right kit as that means hp if you're sending out for hp-ux resource.
/SP&L