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I've been spending a good deal of time with IOmeter recently. I'm growing quite fond of it. It does take quite a bit of time to execute tests that are statistically meaningful in even in a small environment. I'm working on setting up tests packages that can be run from a workstation, pushed to servers, executed, and the results pulled back without relying on the dynamo daemon. I would love to see what is going on inside the SAN fabric while I'm executing IOmeter tests, but FC analysis tools are very expensive. Maybe some day. |
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There is usually a giant sucking sound when finance and IT meet. Each of them knows that they can’t operate without the other. Isn’t it time for the two to understand each other? I know this is problem that is generations old. In my last job I put together what I thought was the cat’s meow of models that joined finance and IT. It really is quite elegant. I got huge pats on the back from our executives and program managers and a whole lot of blank stares from the IT groups. The problem was making it work when I was the only one that knew how to connect the dots. At the end of my tenure there were still lots of dots to be connected, but many more were connected than when I started. Our IT executive began to understand what it cost to run their infrastructure, our finance guys began to understand what the IT guys need, our IT guys began to understand what the finance guys need, and things were just starting to come together. The problem was that all of the knowledge is locked inside my head, but that’s a story for another day. The key that unlocked the doors was putting things in units of measure with a cost per unit of measure. This way the IT guys knew how to measure a particular part of the infrastructure and the finance guys knew how much everything cost at the unit level that the IT guys reported. Sounds simple enough but it took four months to define, discuss, and agree on the units of measure, let alone implement and refine the data collection, reporting, and billing mechanisms. |
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