Posts by Justin Bennett 22 publicly visible posts • joined 6 May 2008
This was solved years ago. Buy a Windows DataCentre edition license for each ESX or Hyper-V platform. That then allows you to deploy unlimited Windows Server OS on top. Job done.
We saved a fortune on massive virtualisation estates by doing just this and far more importantly, simplified the whole licensing tracking & planning.
I'm no fan of Apple whatsoever, but if they didn't defend (attack) this violation, then they'd have less legal legs to stand on for a proper issue (whinging about Samsung et al).
So they've got to pursue it or lose their rights, which would be rather funny.
Still, crap clothes for moronic parents, good job they're going!
Put scripting in to estimate how much data you're going to backup and then query the backup solution to find out how much (file count/overall size) it actually backed up...
Then get that pumping into a DB with alerting if it backs something not consistent with history.
Oh and do restores - just to check, they're more important than the backup :)
This is a great article to send to people who say our Enterprise should move to Linux and MySQL because they're free.... they always seem to forget the cost of support & maintenance for Enterprise capable versions of OS and DB and also tracking down people with Enterprise level skills for architecting, implementing & supporting these products...
Does the author seriously think the rest of the world hasn't been doing this for a very long time with any form of electronic networking product?
Who do you email, who are you linked to on IM products, Social Networks etc... all mapped and traced electronically which makes life so much easier for the Intelligence agencies. And c/o your IP a lot of different identities on different systems can all be mapped to you then to your networks...
So, nothing new or exciting.
Once you have a datacentre with several thousand servers (physical & virtual) then SAN is easily the best way to go. No need to physically manage thousands of disks here there & everywhere, improved resilience to failure as the load is spread.
Then the ability to handle vast iops comes into play to, less SANs for more servers, or a SAN that can cope with vast throughput for large ERP systems... In either environment, local disks are no use.
Who ever said / thought that nu-labour was different from old-labour... It's just communism and tight control of the people through the back door. That's why they don't criticise China / Russia too much, they learn from them instead.
The sooner there's an election and the unelected government is first thrown out then prosecuted for treason & crimes against humanity the better! (Include Blair in that one too)
Simple solution, get a court order and order a bailiff to go into an Apple store to remove sufficient goods to reclaim the owed money + legal costs. This happens enough times they'll be cleared out and will have to get things sorted quickly. People have done it to banks in this country so they can definitely do it to Apple!
with the POWER5/6 frames and Virtualisation?
We've got over 40 p595's alone with 64 CPUs/1TB RAM each and 4 * D20 I/O drawers with 24 PCI slots each... all shared virtually where possible, or dedicated where extreme throughput is needed. These host LPARs with virtual processors and allocated memory... job done!
I have had the unfortunate job years ago to work in a Mac server room! We had to get it all ported to Windows, Exchange etc (yes the mail server ran on a Mac too!). As I had limited experience on Macs I had to replicate their environment back in our office to plan the port of their systems & mail...
Never seen a place like that since and hope I never do!
For all the Linux/MySQL fanboys, once you get into a corporate environment the support contracts, training etc required to provide proper support & maintenance of these 'free' products is shocking! The same can apply to freeware/shareware - tucked in their license agreement is a 'corporates not allowed to use' clause... big fees! Even Adobe Reader has this tucked away, corporates roll without an agreement at your peril.
In the Army we used to have thermite grenades in case of a base attack, forgetting just hard drives, these things would liquidate the insides of computers, bespoke hardware etc and just leave a molten mess in seconds!
The only faster / flasher method was the Russians who had nukes aimed at our bases...
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