My boss is trying to justify more resources so I made a list of all the stuff I am responsible for. 74 production servers with 8 major OS’s and 6 minor versions within the major versions 23 test servers 15 storage devices with 5 different OS’s 52 services How many are you responsible for?
As part of our mail server testing we moved 10 people over to the new mail server and I used imapsync to get mail from the production mail server to the test mail server. I need to run this every 5 minutes and can run no more than 5 processes at a time. xargs allows…
The League of Professional System Administrators and the Seattle Area System Administrators Guild invite you to the Cascadia IT Conference – a regional workshop for Systems, Networks, Database, and Web Administrators and others who provide professional IT support/services. This is your opportunity to network with your regional peers, to learn from leaders in the field…
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Test description: Transfer 685 2K frames (11MB per file, 8.1 GB total) to and from LTO 4 tape. TAR Blocking Factor Write LTO4 Read LTO4 1024 2m34s 1m16s 2048 1m24s 1m16s 4096 1m19s 1m34s The organization writing the LTO4 tape can nearly halve write time by using blocking factor of 2048 rather than 1024 as…
I have just received confirmation that the contract for the venue for the Cascadia IT Conference 2011 has been signed. We’re go for Friday and Saturday, 11 & !2 MAR, 2011 at the Hotel Deca in Seattle, WA, USA. The CfP should be out very very soon.
I will be teaching a full-day class with Marc Staveley on Using Amazon Web Services at this year’s LISA conference. The conference is being held in San Jose, CA from November 8 through 12 and my class (F1) is on the 12th. Come and join the fun!
Coolest thing I saw at SIGGRAPH 2010 was the Fusion-IO demo of streaming over 1800 DVD quality videos simultaneously from a 0.5 TB Fusion-IO drive. Here is a video of that demo: Quick 1:29 video of the demo explaining how the display works. This second link is a little old so the stats on the…
So what are we talking about when we talk about problem solving?
There are all sorts of problems sysadmins have to deal with on a regular
basis: technical problems and personal problems, immediate problems and
distant problems, easy problems and difficult problems. What I want to
address are problems of a more technical nature. I’m not going to talk much about specific tools or things like that, but rather more general topics that come to mind when I think about problem solving.
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Finally got my own blog up: http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/ It’ll be about configuration management, documentation, and increasing system administration efficiency.