Entries written in September 2009

Written September 17, 2009 in sysadmin

Despite the recent pot-banging around the Sun/Oracle merger and the allegations that Sun’s getting it’s customer base stolen out from under it, I just pushed the button on a fairly large cluster with Sun as the hardware vendor.

Simply put, I couldn’t find machines with better stats for the …

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Written September 14, 2009 in sysadmin

It’s Monday morning. Your boss strolls into your office. You just finished with the trouble tickets from the weekend, and this is his favorite time to ruin your entire week. He says, “I have a project for you. I need a cluster with a primary and backup SAN that is …

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