Woohoo, seems that my suggestion to create these forums worked!!!
Anyway, I'm working for an Outsourced IT Solutions, have been with them since September last year, I started off as a 1 month temp for helpdesk as I was in between jobs (and had just switched from a career in Mechanical Engineering to IT), they decided to take me on full time as I knew my stuff. The company is small but growing at a rapid rate, the company itself is 3 years old and we currently have 6 Server level engineers (including myself) and 2 helpdesk boffins.
Our helpdesk isn't your usual take call, log issue, pass to 2nd line style, it's 1st and 2nd line rolled into one with large emphasis on closing out all calls possible remotely. I spent 3 months time served on helpdesk as that was where I was needed, then we picked up 2 extra staff and I was released from my bonds and became a fully fledged mobile engineer.
5 months on and I've been sekonded to a Medium sized International company as the sole In-house IT. We have a fairly impressive setup here as the company heavily relies on their IT, we use Dell server hardware as the group the company is with has a 40% group discount on all hardware.
We've got 4 virtualised servers hosted via VMWare ESX server all stored on our SAN. Those 4 servers comprise the Main Fileserver, Antivirus server, Exchange server and a hosted Application server. In addition to this, we have a Citrix server, an SQL server that is used by various hosted applications, 1 additional Linux based hosted application server and a File replication server. We have all of this in one 45U Rack. On the other side of the building in a seperate fire zone we host a Disaster recovery server which will replicate the main server images incrementally every 4 hours - this is a work in progress currently.
Anyway long post, I think I'll make a seperate thread on show us your hardware!
) thread in general hardware somewhere, someone should move it into this section
