[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by Jar

High-five!

I manage the IT infrastructure team for a national automotive lender / dealer (As a managing engineer).

About 4k users, probably a dozen businesses.

We are a reference customer for VMWare, EMC, and Cisco because we leverage things like Nexus OTV for layer 2 spanning and VPLEX for our block-storage virtualization / abstraction. This allows us to move any VM between datacenters with no interruption. We literally leave DRS in fully automated mode and let our VMs water-level between the geographic locations. Did I mention that we are 99% virtualized? DR is a thing of the past. It's the greatest.

I've got 15 years experience, a VCP5, MCITP:Enterprise Admin, MCITP: Messaging Admin, even my CCNA, but... no college degree!

I'm 37, and yeah I'd flip burgers for a living if it paid the bills.





lol owns

HDS > EMC with VPLEX


That's likely the direction we will move in.. right now our storage is a mix of EMC VNX2, NetApp and NIMBLE storage SANs. We are some early adopters of NIMBLE stuff, they have some lab SANs named after our SANs (which are named things like "honeybadger").



We aren't that big, but a lot of VMware, Cisco (network and voice), etc. Using PernixData for local acceleration of VMs for reads and writes, multiple data centers, etc but far less users. About 400 users.. and 400 servers.. we are a SaaS business mostly now.