Days where 90% of the job is awesome, but the 10% does it in and tanks it are no fun. That was one of those. Just when you have a handle on what you can do and will do as a team, poof, it changes. I know it happens, but this was far beyond the ordinary. I'll do the fun parts.
Phone calls with your vendors, resellers, and others that are actually fun, useful and on target. Had a conference call with our implementor, wireless hardware provider and us. Our implementation team from our reseller stepped up and spoke up on our behalf. The hardware vendor themselves worked to help resolve our issue. Those are good calls. Even with 7 people on a con-call with no true "organizer". 5 tech people with 2 sales creatures on the same call are interesting. I genuinely like our implementation person. Smart, sharp, savvy, and in my corner. good cloning material.
Before that I found out my zoning was 23/24 correct. freaking misclicks. Easily corrected and non-production storage. Anyhow. created the servers onto the ISE so i could provision storage. Next step to do, create adequate storage and offload busier arrays onto these units. However, adding the array to our management system...whats this yellow hardware error (and my previous storage person took another job 3 weeks ago). ah, crap. support call. We've had it happen before. And my boss wondered why i built-in redundancy at every layer possible, hardware software, cabling. CCR will save the day when we have to go offline on the array with error for the rebuild. About the only issue our users will see....is none unless they happen to be do something that 1-4 minutes we failover the ccr on sunday morning.
During the lunch hour we got to play host to our eRate company. It was informational for them so one of their new people could put the terms to the physical items. either they were polite or i was informative. 90 minutes of me doing a data center tour. i'm going with the former.
Anyhow, those were the fun parts.
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