Nomecks

Two door plug bolts to the back of the head, very tragic

I had one of these for my Avalanche, it cost $200.

The problem with external LUNs is that they're out of the control of the hypervisor. You can run into situations where migration events can cause access issues. If you can have the data presented through the hypervisor it will lead to less potential issues. Using object or NFS are also good options, if available.

Don't present LUNs to VMs is the best practice. The only time you should do it is if you're absolutely forced because you're doing something that doesn't support better shared disk options.

Let's not forget jeans memes.

cat /etc/passwd |grep adelie

Just a big pile of if statements.

I make no judgements on the intelligence of these decisions, I was answering why companies do it.

They only understand when lawyers talk to them.

Superpower: Able to get any show or movie series cancelled

Contractors can be paid out of project budgets, they don't need benefits and other perks aside from cash and they can be hired and terminated quickly with no severance

So these cards have only heatsinks and no fans. They're designed to be used in hot/cold aisle facilities with the server cooling package moving the air. You're going to need to work around that if you want to use one, or you'll quickly overheat the card.