This is a great persona profile!!! Thank you.
On 07/11/2012, at 12:13 AM, Justin Clift <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is the text for the "SysAdmin" Persona (Sam), presented a > few minutes ago. > > Trying to think of how to specify needs/wants, but nothing's > coming to mind. Any suggestions? > > + Justin > > ************************************************************** > > Sysadmin Persona: Sam > > Personal background > ******************* > > * Sam is a 35 year old male from Hanoi, Vietnam, who migrated > to east coast US about 10 years ago. > > * He is the sole breadwinner in his family, happily married to > his wife of 8 years, and has a 3 year old child. > > * Sam works as the Aeolus SysAdmin for "T-Bone", a large > monopoly style Telco in his area. > > * He previously worked on Enterprise Class Solaris Systems for > many years, and moved to working with Linux (mostly RHEL), a > few years ago. > > Environment > *********** > > * "T-Bone" has dedicated NAS, SAN and network teams, with a 2 > week+ (min) turn around time for requests. > > * Aeolus runs on a single server in this environment, a dual > cpu (2 x quad core) HP DL380 with 24 GB RAM, and 2TB of > local RAID 0 SATA storage. > > * Aeolus is hooked up to a small vSphere 5.x cluster. vCenter > is running on a server identical to the Aeolus one, and 4 x > hosts (also HP DL 380's) with 96GB RAM and 4TB of shared > NetApp storage (a fast NAS). > > * Sam's team also use Aeolus with EC2, for giving their > partners access to selected builds of their applications, > for testing and qualification (not prod). > > * The Aeolus environment is used by the developers in a part > of T-Bone's business and government division. About 40 > people. > > * The standard development platform the developers write for > is RHEL 6.x, JBoss (various releases), and Oracle 10g/11g. > > * NetBackup is the enterprise backup solution, so Sam wrote > custom shell scripts to do backups of Aeolus nightly. > > They don't back up generated Aeolus images, but do backup > up everything else (Aeolus state, XML templates, etc). > > * Sam has a ToDo list item to investigate RHEV, and has been > toying around with oVirt on a spare desktop box. Not in > depth with it yet. > > Needs / wants > ************* > > * ??? > > ************************************************************** > > -- > Aeolus Community Manager > http://www.aeolusproject.org >
