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Measuring Usage of Distributed Resources?

Posted by michael on from the how-many-angels dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "I work in a distributed development environment with some 1000 engineers running Solaris on different hardware platforms. We are initiating a project to move to a centralized environment. One of the biggest problems in this project is to identify the amount of resources (i.e.: RAM, disk space, etc) that the centralized environment should provide to the users. For example, each developer is currently building his code in a different desktop on the network. How could we effectively monitor how much resources are been consumed from each desktop during each build? If we find a way to capture this information, considering that the results were gathered from different hardware platforms, how could we normalize the data to get meaningful metrics that would help us define a solution?"

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  1. Re:What are you talking about? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    Look - you can't expect them to understand without pointing out the ludicrous words they're using. I will do so... ...now!

    "I work in a distributed development environment with some 1000 engineers running Solaris on different hardware platforms. We are initiating a project to move to a centralized environment. One of the biggest problems in this project is to identify the amount of resources (i.e.: RAM, disk space, etc) that the centralized environment should provide to the users. For example, each developer is currently building his code in a different desktop on the network. How could we effectively monitor how much resources are been consumed from each desktop during each build? If we find a way to capture this information, considering that the results were gathered from different hardware platforms, how could we normalize the data to get meaningful metrics that would help us define a solution?"

  2. Easy Way Out by Jester998 · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's a very simple solution to this problem: Imagine your 'dream box', then tell management you need that.

    "Yes, Mr. CEO, we need a system with 16-way SMP, 64GB RAM, 2 or 3 TB hard drive space... actually, make that solid state storage... we need the speed. It'll also need 10 gigabit Ethernet. Oh, and don't forget my GeForce 4. What? Yeah, we need an GF4 to play Qua... to render those architectural drawings quickly.
    ....
    I, did I say we needed ONE of these systems? Sorry... I meant THREE."

    =)