[SAC] Joined to ask some questions . . .
Frank Warmerdam
warmerdam at pobox.com
Thu Jul 22 12:25:47 EDT 2010
Bob Basques wrote:
>
>
> We're Linux through and through, sorry on the windows thing, I feel for
> you.
>
>
> Debian is our (currently) preferred poison.
Bob,
No need to appologise from where I'm standing!
> In between the lines, I'm wondering about providing dedicated device(s)
> for OSGEO use, could be used, could be new, could be mixed. Does it
> make some sense to think about it possibly as redundant node(s), that
> could possibly take over if needed.
This might have some value, but we aren't really in a pressing need
for *more* servers at this time.
> I was wondering about Blades vs separate CPU's as well. You prefer
> Blades, or anything goes, etc.
We are really moving to a "big multi-cpu server" with lots of
VMs on it architecture at OSU OSL. We have two physical
servers there now, with about 8 or so VMs running on them.
> I would need to figure out how to
> balance one time setup vs long term support. Preferably, we would setup
> and forget. Don't have the manpower resources currently to go much
> beyond this offer right now. Can't really address the admin/VM stuff
> at all, nor do we want to at this time, but the co-locating is a real
> possibilty (offsite datacenter and independent vendor, NOT City).
Understood. But I'll say it is the manpower that is our main
limiting factor now.
Best regards,
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