Lots of people talk about bad support experiences so i wanted to post about two experiences i had last week<\/p>\n
One of our clients has four servers, two HPs and two “other brand” servers (names concealed to protect the guilty!). The HPs are the newest that we installed and the others we inherited when we took on the contract<\/p>\n
If we have any hardware issues we deal with HP directly. If there are issues with the other servers we\u00a0have a contract in place with another company (who also\u00a0happen to be a distributor of these servers) as we can’t get support directly from the vendor (as far as i am\u00a0aware!) \u00a0<\/p>\n
Late on wednesday night i got an email from one of the HPs letting me know it was having a problem with one of the disks. That particular disk is part of a RAID 5 array so i knew there was no “immediate” emergency but had to deal with it pretty quickly<\/p>\n
So i went to the office on Thursday morning and logged a call with the HP support desk just before 9 am. At the same time i spotted a problem with one of the “other” servers so logged a call for that as well. I had a meeting scheduled to see the client anyway so left shortly after for a 10.30 meeting.<\/p>\n
I got a call back from HP on-route to let me know that a new hard disk would be on site by 11am and “would i like an engineer as well?”<\/p>\n
I declined an engineer as it was something i was happy to do since i was going to be there<\/p>\n
At 10.50\u00a0I got a call to say there had be a slight delay and the drive would be there by 11.30 and “we are really really sorry for the delay”<\/p>\n
The drive arrived at 11.20 so it promptly went into the server so it could start rebuilding on the new drive.<\/p>\n
By about 13:30-14:00-ish i checked the status and it had finished the re-build and was working happily….it was then i realised that no-one had been in touch about the other server<\/p>\n
When i did check the status i was told “we’re trying to source\u00a0the part”<\/p>\n
So in short.<\/p>\n
HP called me back to let me know what was happening, shipped a drive immediately, called to apologise profusely for it being twenty minutes late and the whole thing had rebuilt by lunch time……in this time i hadn’t even had a call back to give me a status update from the “other” support company,<\/p>\n
I’m intentially not mentioning the guiltly parties here as i’d like to give some kudos to HP for a job well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lots of people talk about bad support experiences so i wanted to post about two experiences i had last week One of our clients has four servers, two HPs and two “other brand” servers (names concealed to protect the guilty!). The HPs are the newest that we installed and the others we inherited when we<\/p>\n