Converting a MS company to Linux

[Bill Warner]

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:35, Tom Emerson wrote:
> Redundant routers, dual NIC'd desktops, double Ethernet wiring, 
Not so much worried about individual desktops as we have cold spares
that can be swapped out in a few minutes.

> geographically seperated utility power feeds,
got it

 ditto UPS & Gen Sets,
got em too

> ditto 
> Telcom connections. 
Not sure but we do have a pretty intense telcom system but that is not
my department.

 Two of everything?  
right now we have two of every production server ~30 (60 with dupes) and
a cold spare for complete parts.

Hmmm, dude, you're getting the 
> budget of your dreams!
Was there during the dot com era, thats where we got the
infrastructure.  Now we are a little more conservative with our budget
but still require a lot of redundancy and 5, 9 uptime.

> 
> Better to plan for failure, document and PRACTICE recovering from 
> failures.  Eliminating single points of failure can be accomplished, but
> 
> the expense to the business often exceeds the amount of risk.
> </rant OFF>
> 
> (I'll bet that you are looking to eliminate the single points of failure
> 
> that are financially practical to solve, yes?)
> 

We have a requirement to use Linux.  It is becoming the company standard
for all application servers and we are infiltrating the NT domain, lan,
and desktop now.  We are getting a demo IBM Linux cluster
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/clusters/hardware/1350.html as our
next toy to play with.  I will post updates as to my experience with the
hardware and system.

-- 
Bill Warner
Unix/Linux Admin.
Direct Alliance Corporation

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