Re: I love how a disk firmware problem requires a UCS manager update!
I run a large UCS environment and we just deployed our second HX cluster. Not sure what you are talking about because it took less than an hour.
But here’s the thing, we know what the fuck we are doing. We had the preinstall checklist prepped. We also don’t have issues with UCS but I know who has: when we acquired a company we also inherited their IT team. Their “server experts” were a wonderful bunch, no documentation, low skills but big talk, everything was Microsoft’s Vmware’s and Cisco’s fault, no two servers had the same config, no automation, no scripting skills, nothing.
We have policies for everything, our service profiles are planned out and designed as part of a larger architecture, and we use Ansible to automate deployment. Those new guys did nothing but complain how “complex” everything is.
My take on it is that people who do not know tech (but like to think they do) complain about their tools.