I do like the feeling when you actually achieve something. Meetings, planning and discussion all have their place but at the end of the day it’s about the result; probably why my slogan is making IT happen.

So I was quite pleased with the recent effort for a customer (still a few more finishing touches before it’s 100% complete). We’ve consolidated their ageing individual servers into 2 HP DL 380 Gen8s connected to an HP MSA iSCSI Storage Array. Ontop of the hardware it’s running Citrix Xen Server to virtualize the OSes, and provide high availability automatic failover. The whole lot should also provide enough computing and storage growth for the next 3 years and allow them to expand their business capabilities and confidently offer their customers SLA guarantees.