Everyone, It is with heavy heart and weary hand that I write to you this message, for a beloved colleague of ours has passed away. This morning, at approximately 3:12 AM, our beloved EMC Celerra Network Storage System ‘celerra’ was laid to rest. It was preceded in death by its three children (two natural, one estranged) LIME, HOUEMC, and CHERRY, and its grandchildren who we have come to know and love as HOUWSS01 and HOUWSS02. Celerra came to us nearly six years ago today, and was brought online after much effort from its parents, and while it served us well without too much fuss, by last November, it had grown old, and feeble – barely able to remember who we were, nd much more content to live in the memories of the past, reminding us almost hourly that it missed them, and called for them by name… “CHERRY…. OBERON? TITANIA?” it would repeatedly blurt out to its neighbors in vain, to fall on deaf ears. Faithfully, Celerra survived the mammoth move of last Thanksgiving, but it was offline too long, and began to settle comfortably into what would be its last precious few months with us, for in December, a routine self-examination produced a failed back-up battery, and destroyed one of its precious disks! We appealed to the common, decent human nature of the faceless horde from whom we acquired Celerra, but they turned up their noses, and demanded a king’s ransom to bring it back from the dead. Alas, we let poor Celerra suffer – gagging it with firewalls and pleading with it in furious keystrokes to please its insatiable need to phone home to EMC, like some demented little alien, desperate for someone to listen to its futile pleas for transplants of hardware, the cost of which surely would rival the GDP of some third-world countries. In this manner it lived out its last days, until this morning, when it was found to be mortally wounded in disk zero, gasping for life or limb or LAN, and thus, with a short prayer and anointment of its chassis with a dab of spilled spindle grease, I administered Last Rites to its dying control station. /nbsnas/nas_shutdown –s server_2 /nbsnas/nas_shutdown –s server_3 sync sync sync halt Regards, Jacob W. Hawkins, CCNP, RHCE Senior Network Architect Assist Legal Technologies, LLC
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:10:09 +0000
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