Just asking

Quiz time:

You are a system administrator. The long Thanksgiving weekend is coming and your company is closed both Thursday and Friday. One of your three production servers is severely fragmented as a result of maintenance performed the day before.

Do you:

B: Run defrag routine overnight on Wednesday?

B: Run defrag routine sometime over the weekend?

C: Ignore fragmentation, migrate one of your other servers to a new subnet which you have not admin rights to and forget to inform the subnet owners who don't know they have to assign an IP address to your server which then sits in limbo until they finally find out while simultanously taking one of the other production servers offline and rebuilding it on a UNIX box because the current configuration doesn't support VB which is widely used by production reports?

If you answered C, congratulations! You think like my manager.

Incidentally, server load is also 200% of normal.

Quick to the Wayback machine:

Circa October 14th, 2006

Me: We really should use Loadrunner on these servers before we go live

Engineer: Yes! That's a really good idea.

Manager: What is Loadrunner?

Me: Software that tests load balancing and maximum capacity

Manager: Ah. Have to check that out.

....sounds of crickets chirping for 6 weeks

Manager: So, we're live today......

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