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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:02:13 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "Stark, Brian" <Brian.Stark@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: general status update
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Don't forget your LSI batjess, you'll need them to gain access through
the front door. ~:^)

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:42:50 -0600 "Stark, Brian" <Brian.Stark@lsi.com>
wrote:

> Thanks a lot for the update.  I'm back and will be in Campbell
> tomorrow, probably around 11.  Maybe we can do our 1-1 in the
> afternoon tomorrow instead of Thursday.
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@lsi.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:37 AM
> To: Stark, Brian
> Subject: general status update
> 
> Lab:
> 
> Had phone conversation with Karen Something, and later with Andy
> Fernandez, and things are looking pretty good.  Just as I'd hoped,
> they are completely on board with my plan to switch to copper for LAN
> in the lab.  They have some budget to replace all our LAN and SAN
> switches with Cisco kit, and so that's what we're going to do.  I'm
> going to try and get some small 10GigE capability at the same time
> for a bit of a backbone and for future needs of QA and Dev.  That
> effort will be continuing this week.  Cisco 3560e and 3750e
> switchess.  Andy F. said they would whip up a mini-design of the
> layout, and I can tweak it from there, so that will be good.  I have
> to get them some sort of rough port count.
> 
> Rich is now 40+ hours here, so that's good news.  I believe you got
> Larry's report that there's a bit of a confusion with LSI help desk
> regarding what to do with Lab tickets.  I'm assuming you'll be
> handling that bit.
> 
> I asked if Shawn or Dave could help by doing the storage part of the
> Lab upgrade, but I believe Dave said that wouldn't work, Shawn is too
> busy or something.  So I think I'll try and get Rich to whip up
> something in his copious spare time. You can view the lab plan on the
> wiki as I keep updating it.
> 
> http://wiki.onstor.net/wiki/Lab#Bold_New_Lab_Plan_.28But_not_too_bold.21.29
> 
> TuxStor:
> 
> We're back on track somewhat, although I'm having a touch of trouble
> with Bill telling Rendell to do the opposite of what I tell Rendell to
> do, at least it seems that way to Rendell.  Nothing I can't handle.  I
> think.
> 
> Max is apparently pregnant, because that's how he's acting.  We should
> talk about how to handle the guys in India going forward, because
> right now it seems like a real struggle to try and manage what
> they're doing through an "extra hop."
> 
> I failed quite completely to get Max to agree to let me move the
> opensol directory.  The only thing I can think of is that his ego
> somehow got tied up in the whole thing, and when that happens he
> apparently loses all ability to reason.
> 
> Grain of salt time:  Bill says that Max is completely refusing to work
> on anything TuxStor related, doesn't want to port the threading
> subsystem, doesn't want to manage the guys in India beyond passing
> excruciatingly detailed task lists to them, etc.  It sounds right to
> me, but I didn't personally witness the conversation, which means it
> could be true, it could be false.
> 
> IT:
> 
> Folks are running around miffed about the Citrix situation.  I phoned
> Arnaldo and he said he would dig up the Citrix credential information
> so Larry or someone could administer it, but so far he hasn't
> responded to my email.
> 
> Mightydog is similar.  Trin is saying they can't do anything because
> they don't know what's going on with the machine or who to ask about
> how it's configured, where various bits are located, etc.  Arnaldo
> says he made a spreadsheet for them and gave it to Trin and Mini &
> Tonica. Trin says he doesn't want to start backups until data for Ops,
> Accounting, Support ... is moved off to somewhere else that they have
> set aside for that, and since they don't know where that data is
> located, they can't move it.  I'm not sure why moving that stuff is a
> prerequisite, but that's what he told me last week.  I'll fire off an
> email to see if I can coax that process along.
> 
> I had a relatively short conversation with Kathy Gauthier.  She tried
> to lay some complete line of BS on me about how it's a requirement
> that you have a minimum of 8 reports before you can be a manager.  I
> didn't mention that that would seem to be not true.  They are going
> to install whiteboards in the two tiny conference rooms, and phones
> and wired ethernet in all the conference rooms as well.
> 
> That's enough for now.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> a
