Sunshine1868

Another one for you all- this one is a daily encounter multiplied by 10.
Pupil: I can't log on.
Me: Okay, what message pops up when you type in your username and password?
Pupil: I type my password and it doesn't log me in.
Me: I know, what ERROR message pops up when you press ENTER?
Pupil: "Your password is incorrect"
Me: Thanks for narrowing it down! What is your username? (Our username scheme is last two digits of the year they enrolled + surname + first letter of their name. For example: 11smithj)
Pupil: John Smith.
Me: Not your name, your username- what do you type in when you log-in? What number is it? (I could just look for smithj but we have 7 OUs with different years and the search function crashed my AD xD)
Pupil: The letter is S.
Me: What year did you come to this school?
Pupil: *Thinks for 10 seconds* 2011
Me: So your username is 11smithj?
Pupil: Yes.

I kid you not, that happens on a daily basis.

Finally! After 2 months I have finally got it... THE virtualization server we always wanted. We got the cheapest price from a work college who does school IT kit now for next to nothing. A branded server- Fujitsu Primergy RX2540 M1.Specs are as following:
2x Intel Xeon E5-2620v3 (6c/12t) @2.4GHz
64GB DDR4 RAM @ 2133MHz in quad channel
3x 300GB SAS drives 15K in RAID 5
6x 3TB Hard Drives (WD Enterprise) in RAID 6
2x PRAID EP400i
4x additional SATA ports at the back- we might do SSD caching in the future
4x Emulex 10GBASE-T ports
2x Intel 10GB over fiber
2x 800W 80+ Platinum PSUs
5 years next day on site help :)

MMMM... give me 5 minutes alone :D

24 watt fans? YES PLS!

This baby is already running 11 virtual machines, using on average 70% CPU all the time with 60GB RAM utilization.

Not my post but sums up some of the things we put up with...


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