Posts by Anonymous Crowbar 67 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Nov 2013
That is not _exactly_ true. It is a lot of work, but is doable. We are a software house and many/most have MACs. However as you said, it is a fair bit of work, but once set up it seems to be fine.
> There is no bulk installation or update mechanism, there is no centrally controlled permissions.
Apps called JAMF and PMC Policies manages this. Forces centralised policies, password rotation, OS updates.
We migrated thousands of Java and while we were at it removed every Oracle product we had over the last few years. When they came to screw us on renewals their sales drones was shocked when we went from thousands of DB cores, thousands of java, and thousands of other ancillary services to 4 oracle cores [application couldnt be moved in time] the lock of shock was enjoyable as he realised his massive bonus just got fucked.
It was a big project that took 18 months, but had buy in from all the teams. In the end we moved to Corretto [we have a large AWS estate so made sense] rather than openJDK, but TBH it is much of a muchness.
Fuck Oracle.
We were discussing new licencing agreements with Oracle before Covid, when they informed us we would be required to licence java. That was the last straw for us and they were told getin the f**king sea. . By then of CV19 we had migrated EVERYTHING off oracle with the exception of a single archaic HR system we needed RO records from.
~ 10K DB cores
~ 5k Weblogic cores
~ 1K Virtualbox licences
~ Probably over 150k java instances [few k devs each with multiple envs, multiple exabyte cassandra rings, multiple global DCs and thousands of cloud instances]
When the sales guy came back after with what was an extremely lucrative ongoing concern for him was told we had less than 12 cores on this legacy system and everything else was removed, I imagine he went to his car and had a good cry. I can just imagine his bottom lip quivering as he is told to FO.
Oracle can burn in hell.
I actually did this on /usr on a running AIX [cant remember but it was either 5.3, 61. or 7.1] host. The OS stayed running and we were able to rebuild the whole system from there. [We had backups, but this was a test to see what we could do if we didnt have any backups].
Was surprised by the fact the whole thing kept running.
We actually moved to Corretto in the end.
When oracle came and told us they were going to charge us for all our Java, we decided to move _everything_ away from oracle. Every java and other oracle software [there was a lot] is gone. We are down to under a hundred DB cores, and this was many multiples of this. Our Oracle licensing cost was multiple millions /mo.
Now they cant believe that we have dumped 98% of our bill. When they came to try to sell us OCI they were told get in the f***ing sea.
Last time i was doing AIX about 5/6 years ago we implemented a tool called PowerVM.
Basically you added your SANs and Switches [we used both v7000 and the AFA FS9000], added your Power Systesm [775s and 795s], VIOServers and it was all in a web interface. You could spin out AIX LPARs in a few minutes.
It basically felt like OpenStack on Power.
It was pretty cool to use if you were an old school unix admin.
When i was last working on power about 5 years ago i set up PowerVM with a number of Power795s, FlashSystem9000s and Storwisev7000s.
It was basically OpenStack on Power connecting directly to the SANs and the HMCs/LPARs and it was fantastic for our environment being able to spin new dev envs in extremely short times as opposed to the normal nonsense. Never got to try to do production loads with it, as i left the company due to manglement being a bunch of jackasses, but it was a valid in-house platform for us anyway.
I get emails from a stupid left-pondian for all sorts of crap. I am in Ireland. Hotel bookings, car bookings, flight bookings, school details, his daughters dance company, etc
For about 3 or so years.
A lof of the time, these contain personal information, most of which if it was me, I wouldnt like out there.
I originally tried to be nice, but the fuc*tard kept doing it. Now I respond to bookings with "I assume my card has been scammed as I did not book this", and to his school groups etc with "Tell the f**king numpty this is supposed to be addressed to to stop using my email." Generally with a reply all as they dont seem to know how to use BCC, and also just to show what a muppet he is.
Actually France has a law where they are allowed charge people that murder their citizens abroad, regardless of the jurisdiction.
Actually, while trying to find the name, I found it isnt murder, it is any crime!
"Under France's Napoleonic Code, prosecutions can be taken against individuals who are not within the French jurisdiction and for alleged offences which occurred overseas."
I am not a dog guy. Actually I pretty much disliked dogs for a long time.
That is until my housemate got a Staffie. Pure bred. And she is one of the most relaxed, laid back animal I have ever met. She never barks, unless it as birds, or Nemesis [A dog across the road, that barks a lot. Seems she is sick of him :P]
There was a motherboard capacitor issue back around then as well where the caps has some dodgy industrial espionage, china clones of chemical formulae, and Taiwan manufactures buying up cheap knockoff electrolyte solvent that was missing some additives that stopped the issue.
https://youtu.be/EUsd-Ri0VCo
We had a security office go to a DC to run vulnerability scanning. This was the normal [terrible] process. He plugged his laptop with nessus in running as a DHCP server, and took down the enitre network, including a 60TB oracle db. Fun times!
That ridiculously stupid process was changed very shortly after that.
Bwahahahahahahaa! Make use of that whilst it lasts! My last employer banned the practice of "Amazon-to-work" after somebody ordered a washing machine, which caused more than a certain amount of difficulty in the post room of a large administrative office.
Ha. Amateurs. Previous company banned the practice of "packages to work" because of two reasons.
#1 Someone had a piano delivered to reception.
#2 The moronic security guards were signing for everything that came in, and the company got hit with 10K+ in import and customs duties at the end of the year.
Muppets.
Before I left the Unix, and primarily AIX, world behind a few months ago I had been playing around with PowerVC. It was basically Openstack implementation with AIX/Power systems, and included interfaces for the v7000 SANs and Flash840 untis we had.
Spinning up images and so forth was pretty easy, once you had a recorded good state. It was kind of like on premises-cloudy stuff.
I would have thought that they would have just expanded on that?
How about IBMs FlashSystem 840 and their v7000. You hook the FS840 in, zone it all up, and the v7000 manages it as an external device, but does all the heavy lifting.
I just migrated from T1 15000 RPM disks onto Flash, using the built in vdisk mirroring. Left the flash as secondary mirror for a bit, then promoted to primary mirror. Obviously we are seeing read speed increases etc, and when we remove the T1 mirror we should see the full AFA throughput gains.
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