We decide we could all use a drink and head to our favorite little Irish Pub down the street. I think they still use them Have a nice holiday.Īll of us are skipping out the door like a bunch of five year olds given a bag of candy. The data center ops guys will be handling it, but pay attention to your pagers please yes we had pagers still. There were many others that did heroic feats this night, however TheGiantScott was my hero and the focus of this story.īoss: Don’t forget the fire suppression people are here doing maintenance on the system.
OpsGuy: They Datacenter Operations guy who was supposed to be babysitting the people doing maintenance. He put up with all of our stupidity and managed to lead us in accomplishing amazing things. Sharp as they came and able to drink enough scotch to put down an elephant. Our boss can see that he’s not going to get anything useful out of any of us and told us we could all go home.Ĭast of characters TheGiantScott: Network Lead. The Unix schleps trying to convert the Windows idiots to the dark side. Network guys being nice to the server guys. The Engineering floor was all but useless because of the holiday.
This was when virtualization was still not trusted for production so we had about 1500 physical servers and everything else that went along with that in our main data center. Being that it was healthcare, applications/servers tended to multiply like bunnies. We had a handful of hospitals and a couple hundred clinics. About ten years ago I worked for a large healthcare company on the Windows Engineering team. I thought I’d share an amusing story from a few years ago with all of you. It’s been a while for me and it’s a slow day at work.
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