Hrm, you might want to look at Solaris 10 zones rather than VMware; might end up cheaper as you won't need the extra software. Added to that, you lose the issues regarding cross-vendor support that can arise. The T1000s are also good for cramming lots of threads in a small footprint.
Caveat Emptor: I've never used VMWare servers, so I don't know how good or bad they are. I've only used zones in the Solaris 10 course I did, so don't have a lot of real-world experience of them so far. Both solutions will probably fill your needs, just one might be better/cheaper.
8. Use linux software raid to make a bigass stripe across all the disks in one enclosure, repeat on the second enclosure, and make a raid10 out of the two. Tuning the stripe size will depend on the application; 32k is a good starting point.
That's RAID 0+1, not RAID 10. Under Solaris Disksuite, it looks like RAID 0+1 but actually behaves like RAID 10; be sure of what you're actually doing on your setup.
For those not aware of the difference, RAID 0+1 is two stripes mirrored; if you lose a disk in one stripe, that entire stripe is failed out. Lose a disk in the other stripe before repairing the first, and you've lost your filesystem. There's a minor chance you can get something back, but I wouldn't bet on it.
RAID 10 is a stripe consisting of mirrors; lose a disk in one half and you'll keep going. Provided you don't lose the partner disk of the first failure, you can suffer a failure in the second half of the mirror and still have access to all your data.
Ok, so what are we going to use instead of nuclear?
Coal/Oil/Gas? Nope, fossil fuel, supplies running out and they're major contributors to global warming.
Solar? Maybe, except not everywhere has sufficient sunlight all year round.
Wind? Every time someone here in the UK tries to get a wind farm up, the greenies complain about the visual impact, the noise and the blades killing migrating birds.
Hydro? Well, 3 Gorges Dam in China was a great success, wasn't it?
There is not one single solution which the environmentalists haven't found a complaint about.
In the UK we have small claims court; you can file a claim against a company or individual for "small" amounts (£5,000 in England and Wales, £750 in Scotland. Yes, Scotland sucks *sigh*).
The claimant fills in a form, submits it to the court, both sides present evidence in a hearing, the court makes a ruling, job closed. There's a relatively small fee (certainly less than a Solicitor would cost) and it's relatively simple.
Yup, agreed. We have a few Ultra 5s and 10s running as servers (dev boxes mainly). We occasionally get "Red State Exceptions" which Sun can't diagnose (it's CPU, memory or motherboard; lot of use...). However, the "real" servers are generally pretty good at giving out good diagnostics saying e.g. CPU2 had a parity error, DIMM x had an uncorrectable memory error, etc, etc.
Basically, to answer the question: what will you do when the server breaks? With a server from IBM, Dell or whoever, you give them a call, they'll diagnose the fault and ship out replacements. For a white box, you need to diagnose it yourself and carry a stock of common parts (hard disks & power supplies mainly). If you don't want to do that, get a named box of any kind.
Yeah, I often come out of a full-screen game and find some IM messages which I hadn't seen... it's a pain and this kind of mouse would help me out with this...
Correct; some versions of sendmail automatically go to DNS and ignore the resolver libs. Why, I don't know; that's what gethostbyname() is for, after all...
It's possible to configure the OS to not look at hosts files at all, if you really want to...
I used to run an E450 at a previous job with software RAID-5 in it. With UFS logging enabled, it ran pretty well with a 10-way RAID-5 with 9GB disks. That was with Solaris 7; it should be better on later versions of the OS.
As for the other comments about power, from the handbook:
Maximum Power Consumption 832 Watts
Agreed. We have an arcaic mainframe based application for change management; I barely struggle by on it, but the change management team shoot through with various arcane shortcuts. There are some vague plans to move to a web based system which will probably slow down the CM team and speed up everyone else...
Everybody I know that has one has some kind of issue that prevents them from playing games.
Doesn't sound like a rare problem, although the sample size (this guy's friends) isn't statistically significant...
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It's a games console... it's supposed to be in the living room. If the designers couldn't figure out that bit and left it with a flaw where it didn't work in a normal living room, they deserve to be shot.
Reinstalling Windows every 6 months was standard practice for me until XP. It seems to handle itself a bit better, although I had to reinstall a month or so ago (corrupted registry... grr...) and it feels a bit more responsive again; a few things which were a little slow are better. However, the slowdown wasn't nearly as bad as I used to get in 95, NT or 98.
Probably because Bell Labs didn't have the same culture. Bell labs would have said "here, look what we've created, us it, enjoy". MS labs will say "Look what we've made! No, you can't use it yourself unless you pay us money...."
The big movers are the domain registrars; they'll host several hundred parked domains on a single server. While they're all using the same content (probably the same files, even), they'll show up as hundreds of sites. If they move from Apache to IIS (or vice versa), several hundred (or thousand?) websites appear to switch.
Not every one, but the majority do. I've got a Perfection 1650 which was pretty easy to set up under SANE (first time I'd done any kind of scanning under linux). I actually felt that SANE was easier to use than the software Epson provided under Windows!
Ah, yes, pinball... I'm not very good at it, but there's something so much more fun having something physical to play with (you in the back, stop sniggering!!).
Hardly see them these days; it's usually the shooting arcades that get the space...
You're basically proposing that legitimate pornographers (some people might have issues with that kind of statement, but go with for now...) are paying to police the paedophiles...
Also, this is proposing some kind of direct link between adult porn and kiddie porn. The fact that there will be a bill linking it will be enough for a lot of people to see adult porn as causing kiddie porn...
Until such time as the above is delivered, I'll stick with DRM free music. I still buy CDs and rip them to MP3 to play for myself (not distribute) but I've returned two CDs because they had DRM on them, even though I wanted the CDs.
I got Solaris certification a couple of years ago because I was going to be out of a job in a few months and hoped the cert would help me stand out a little. To be honest, most of it was stuff I knew already and the rest, well, I've forgotten it.
Certs don't make a good admin any better, but it should show you have the basics/intermediates covered which is enough to show you're not just bluffing.
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Caveat Emptor: I've never used VMWare servers, so I don't know how good or bad they are. I've only used zones in the Solaris 10 course I did, so don't have a lot of real-world experience of them so far. Both solutions will probably fill your needs, just one might be better/cheaper.
For those not aware of the difference, RAID 0+1 is two stripes mirrored; if you lose a disk in one stripe, that entire stripe is failed out. Lose a disk in the other stripe before repairing the first, and you've lost your filesystem. There's a minor chance you can get something back, but I wouldn't bet on it.
RAID 10 is a stripe consisting of mirrors; lose a disk in one half and you'll keep going. Provided you don't lose the partner disk of the first failure, you can suffer a failure in the second half of the mirror and still have access to all your data.
Coal/Oil/Gas? Nope, fossil fuel, supplies running out and they're major contributors to global warming.
Solar? Maybe, except not everywhere has sufficient sunlight all year round.
Wind? Every time someone here in the UK tries to get a wind farm up, the greenies complain about the visual impact, the noise and the blades killing migrating birds.
Hydro? Well, 3 Gorges Dam in China was a great success, wasn't it?
There is not one single solution which the environmentalists haven't found a complaint about.
I thought the Halo effect was the mad rush to buy the Xbox....
You've only just realised? ;)
The claimant fills in a form, submits it to the court, both sides present evidence in a hearing, the court makes a ruling, job closed. There's a relatively small fee (certainly less than a Solicitor would cost) and it's relatively simple.
Basically, to answer the question: what will you do when the server breaks? With a server from IBM, Dell or whoever, you give them a call, they'll diagnose the fault and ship out replacements. For a white box, you need to diagnose it yourself and carry a stock of common parts (hard disks & power supplies mainly). If you don't want to do that, get a named box of any kind.
Who cares about the Nazi party? It's gonna strike 50 years to the day Elvis released Heartbreak Hotel!
Yeah, I often come out of a full-screen game and find some IM messages which I hadn't seen... it's a pain and this kind of mouse would help me out with this...
It's possible to configure the OS to not look at hosts files at all, if you really want to...
As for the other comments about power, from the handbook:
Maximum Power Consumption 832 Watts
So, fairly hefty power draw...
Agreed. We have an arcaic mainframe based application for change management; I barely struggle by on it, but the change management team shoot through with various arcane shortcuts. There are some vague plans to move to a web based system which will probably slow down the CM team and speed up everyone else...
It's a games console... it's supposed to be in the living room. If the designers couldn't figure out that bit and left it with a flaw where it didn't work in a normal living room, they deserve to be shot.
Reinstalling Windows every 6 months was standard practice for me until XP. It seems to handle itself a bit better, although I had to reinstall a month or so ago (corrupted registry... grr...) and it feels a bit more responsive again; a few things which were a little slow are better. However, the slowdown wasn't nearly as bad as I used to get in 95, NT or 98.
Probably because Bell Labs didn't have the same culture. Bell labs would have said "here, look what we've created, us it, enjoy". MS labs will say "Look what we've made! No, you can't use it yourself unless you pay us money...."
The big movers are the domain registrars; they'll host several hundred parked domains on a single server. While they're all using the same content (probably the same files, even), they'll show up as hundreds of sites. If they move from Apache to IIS (or vice versa), several hundred (or thousand?) websites appear to switch.
Lieing to the police under questioning would probably count as "obstructing the police with their enquiries" if you wanted to push the point.
Sheesh, think man; how else is he going to play those large Warhammer (or other tabletop genre) games?
Not every one, but the majority do. I've got a Perfection 1650 which was pretty easy to set up under SANE (first time I'd done any kind of scanning under linux). I actually felt that SANE was easier to use than the software Epson provided under Windows!
Hardly see them these days; it's usually the shooting arcades that get the space...
Why spoil the chance of a good firework display because of some clouds?
Also, this is proposing some kind of direct link between adult porn and kiddie porn. The fact that there will be a bill linking it will be enough for a lot of people to see adult porn as causing kiddie porn...
Until such time as the above is delivered, I'll stick with DRM free music. I still buy CDs and rip them to MP3 to play for myself (not distribute) but I've returned two CDs because they had DRM on them, even though I wanted the CDs.
Certs don't make a good admin any better, but it should show you have the basics/intermediates covered which is enough to show you're not just bluffing.