-----Original Message----- From: Jared Buckley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] <SNIP> Hardware vendors have done a great job of selling enterprise IT folks on the benefits of RAID. HD's with ever increasing storage capacity and their cost decreasing, RAID continues to become more attractive as a solution for continous uptime/fault recovery. (Tape backup technology is just not keeping up with density increases in HD's) Our NT techs are expected to be able to support RAID on NT; you can bet a Linux system admin is going to face the same requirements. Especially in a production envirionment. </SNIP> ----- End Original Message----- I would like to register my agreement with Jared here on this RAID/L2 issue. RAID is definitely not a "has-been" technology... I can tell you this from working with pre-production, next-generation RAID hardware here at Dell. All of our new servers will have RAID built into the motherboard, and our vendors are developing some pretty impressive technologies (U160 support, 4 and 8 way controllers). Cheaper harddrives are driving this wider adoption of RAID, as well as the increasing need for speed in web deployments. A "Senior Admin" would be required (at most other places I've worked) to at least support RAID (failure/recovery) and potentially plan and build RAID solutions. Perhaps the L2 LPI admin should be able to support existing RAID installations, and a L3 LPI admin should be able to plan and deploy new RAID installations (understanding the need for various RAID configurations for various media needs)? This would keep such a deep subject from consuming too much of any one test, yet still require candidates to understand RAID technologies. ~JEREMIAH PATOKA ENGINEERING ANALYST DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION ESG: ENTERPRISE PRODUCT TEST [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was sent from the lpi-examdev mailing list. Send `unsubscribe lpi-examdev' in the subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to leave the list.
