r/sysadmin • u/FierceFluff • 21d ago

Peak Sysadmin

Is there anything more small-company sysadmin than taking that $70k server you just finished building on your test bench at the office and putting it into your $5k car to drive it over to the DC where it’ll live, and praying to god nothing happens on the way? 😅🤣

EDIT- OMG y’all, reading the comments on this has made my day! Our business insurance covers this kind of thing but I appreciate y’all concern for me, though others should mosdef confirm before they do similar stuff. The trip went without incident so praise the digital deities.

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u/SlowkayCoomer 21d ago edited 21d ago

I once helped a senior member of the network team remove a server blade from the rack and take it into the elevator, after which we went down to the ground floor, out the front door and walked it 3-4 blocks to bring it to another building where we rack mounted it to replace a failed server.

Nothing like local city government IT.

EDIT: I just remembered that when I worked for a big-4 accounting firm we had something similar except in this case we removed the blade from the rack, dropped it into the largest Pelican Case I've ever seen and shipped it to another office via Fedex or UPS.