disgruntled-dutch.com » ashburn http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com The ins and outs of Yvo's life. Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:47:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Back to Virginia http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/back-to-virginia http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/back-to-virginia#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:29:23 +0000 Yvo http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/back-to-virginia/ Going back to good ol’ Virginia for 3 days this time instead of 3 weeks. Hopefully HP will get their sh… I mean act together so all the parts I need are there when I get there. One thing is for sure, navigating the HP support tree is helluva lot harder then getting someone from Sun on the phone.

]]> http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/back-to-virginia/feed 2 The Virginia transformation http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/the-virginia-transformation http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/the-virginia-transformation#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:57:03 +0000 Yvo http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/the-virginia-transformation/ The last 3 weeks I’ve spent my time in Virginia, specifically in one of the Equinix datacenters in Ashburn. I was there to help build out a datacenter. When we arrived it was a box galore everywhere (165 HP DL365s, 50 Cisco 3750s, 30 Cisco 2960s, 2 Cisco 6500s) and the accompanying accessories for everything (supervisor cards, memory, the works). The racks and pdus had been setup, nothing else had. So over the course of 3 weeks we basically unboxed, racked, cabled and did basic configuration on everything. Hindsight is a bitch and the fact that pictures were frowned upon made it difficult to make a photo journey. However I do have 6 photos that represent what has been completed in the end.

All in all a very good trip. Got to see some of Washington DC too. WSDOT could truly learn something from VADOT concerning the implementation of roads, highways and what not.

The main cage space… full of boxes
The setup area, not even our cage… full of boxes

Slowly getting empty.
Setup space has turned into a tower of DL365s

View of our cage.
Another view… All servers racked.

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