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Ok – maybe that was too much.  My only challenges this week had to do with my own personal infrastructure.  The powers that be, in their infinite wisdom, brought me in to do Symm work and then after my onboarding handed me a dozen or so Clariion / Celerra designs to do.  When I asked them about the mix-up, they simply stated that they hired a bunch of DMX-only people for projects coming down the pipeline that never closed, so now they have a glut of Symm people who don’t know anything else.

Myself being a Symm person who also happens to know the basics of Clariion / Celerra I get stuck with working with the low-end projects.

I can’t complain too much, since April 1st I’ve been on a total of 1 assignment away from home (to install ECC) and the rest I’ve been working out of my home-office (read basement data-center) and spending much more time with my kids than I think I could have hoped for.

But at heart I’m a geek.  I need to get my hands on the hardware to keep my skills sharp.  And since I don’t think EMC’s going to put a DMX in my garage (hint, hint – even a 1000 will do nicely) I’m stuck trying to figure out a way to get involved with the Symm projects one way or another.

The only Symm experience I’ve realy gotten in the last month was an SRDF/A implementation that mysteriously(?) dropped and no-one could figure out why.  Turns out they needed about 6 times the bandwidth they had allocated to SRDF and the SRDF/A session was terminating because the WP limit was being reached during a database restore.  (Doctor – it hurts when I do this…)

That was handled with a succession of phone-calls and even when I asked if they wanted me on-site during the production cut-over (they went ahead with it anyway) they didn’t respond.  Not even a ‘thanks but no thanks’ just a great big ignore.

Oh well.

Jg