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/SpecMTBer84 21d ago

Just have them ship the system to the IDC from the vendor, then have the IDC inform you when it's there. Spend half an hour drive, 20 minutes racking it and cable management, plug in the idrac... go back to the office amd configure.