My weekend was rather quiet since I was a bit sick. On Saturday i walked from Clontarf to the South of the City center and looked at some places i didn’t visited before, like the harbor. It’s not the nicest I’ve ever seen but far away from the worst. Many ferries go from there and tourist journeys. After that day my cold got worse so I stayed in bed for the rest of the weekend so I don’t have that much to write about. But today Amit and I have to deploy a server in the data center again so I write about that when I got home. I hope everybody have a nice work week.
Autor: Toni Knispel
And another Dell server
Hey yesterday we got another Dell Poweredge R620. So today is deploy time and that means: clicking install, wait 30 minutes, clicking install and so on and so on… It’s not the most exciting task but it have to be done. More interesting will be the deployment in the data center. We don’t know when yet, because we miss one server. We expected two to be delivered but only got one. We’ll see where it goes from there. And then I write about my data center visit again.
Weekend in Belfast
This weekend i went to Belfast. I went there on friday after work and got the bus at 18 o`clock. When I arrived we celebrated the birthday of one of the spanish people from the upper apartments and the german „herrentag“. On saturday we went out to see the city. Sunday was rather quite and we watched movies and tv series. I take the bus tomorrow to get back, because monday is a bank holiday in northern Ireland.
Lync Server 2013 Setup
Last week I had the task to setup a Lync server on our Hyper-V cluster. Its a bit hard do work on everything without administrator passwords because I need Amit to login everything. But besides this the installation had some problems because some services don`t start and the installer can`t install features itself. I got quite far. But before we can start the installation of the service itself we have to install certificates. Oddly there was a warning if we install one of the certificates that it could create errors on out exchange and sharepoint. So we have to clear that issue with the head system engineer.
Detailed look at my data center visit
Last week on Monday Amit and I had to deploy a new Hyper-V server in our rented space in a data center in the industrial district of Dublin. It was a Dell Power edge we configured the week earlier. So Amit came to my desk and said we have to go, so we head over to our small server room in the office and get our server. We went down stairs and to my astonishment we went to the street and waited there. I looked over to him doubtful and he said he called a taxi. I was really surprised. So when the taxi finally came we deployed the server in the trunk and got in. Unfortunately Amit forgot to take the mount rails with him so we had to turn after a quarter of the route and Amit ran up the stairs and packed the rails. The ride was nice i got a good look on the south west of Ireland. So we arrived at the data center that looked more like a garage from the outside but with high tech in the inside. Inside was a security guard at the reception that had a look at his face that said „I want to quit my job“. We had to give him our ID cards and got access cards for the doors. We had to go through a big tube that „Scanned“ us. I don’t know how and what it scanned because it could not be metal since i got the hole server in my hands. After that we got into the server room. We have 2 rented racks in it and Amit showed me both. Then we deployed the rack and asked a coworker that does home office if everything is OK with the connection. After that we we got in the lounge and drank a coffee. Then we wanted to go home and quit a bit early, unfortunately Amit got a mail on his phone that one of our clients domains went down. After plenty of calls at domain hosters we found out that they contract just expired and they didn’t renew it. So we decided to went home. Of cause we got back to the city center with a Taxi and Amit got out earlier at the rail station and gave me the money for the taxi driver. And after that i enjoyed my end of the day.
A new week
Im looking forward to the new week. My co-worker said there some projects we have to do this week. So im really looking forward to this since there wasn’t that much to do in the last weeks. It’s hard to get much work or problems (that get work) in a company with ~20 employees. Most are server projects but i can’t go on my own since the company got strict security guidelines. So i hope there is plenty of work this week.
Clontarf and Fairview
The weather was really nice today so i decided to walk to the city centre. On my way i got to the Clontarf Road, a long road that goes among Clontarf.
Really nice to walk there and a beautiful view. Later on my walk I came across Fairview, its the district under Clontarf. There is the Fairview park thats probably the biggest part of Fairview.
Hyper-V „Server“
Doe to the fact that we use Hyper-V as virtualization solution, I build a Hyper-V „server“ myself today. And i say server in quotes because we only had a Dell Core 2 Duo PC left for testing. I was lucky that it got 4 GB RAM and it ran surprisingly well. But i had some problems that the system center that is used to manage the VMs only works in a domain with a domain admin and I can’t add the V-server to the company domain. So i build my own. And like I said it ran astonishing good.
two weeks now
Two weeks ago we arrived at the airport in Dublin. And we had time to see the city and speak the the people living here. I have to say Dublin is a beautiful and a really nice place to be. The people here are really kindly and the overall feeling in the city is wonderfull. I hope evryone have a good time here.
short summary of my work experience
I’ve worked for 3 and a half days now. I don’t have to much to do because our projects start the next weeks. So I had much time to talk to the employees. The company is really „colorful“, we got many people from different country’s here. And it is much fun to hear all the story’s and experiences. And I don’t feel that bad when i got words wrong or pronounce them wrong because nearly everybody does that too. I’m really looking forward the next weeks.