On 16/05/2017 19:53, Greg Moeller wrote:
On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 10:37:55 AM UTC-5, Greg Moeller wrote:
Has anyone come across the advisability of running an enterprise-wide NTP
server under an AIX LPAR?
We're currently running NTP on old Intel hardware and the company policy is to
refresh hardware on a regular basis.
It seems a waste to buy several new servers if we could just put the NTP
service on an AIX LPAR.
I'm at a large company, serving NTP to over >1000 systems.
Policy is that we can't have old hardware, so they will spend several thousand
$$ on servers to run a single process. (we're an IBM/Lenovo based shop)
Technically, yes, this is a virtual machine, but this is on 250K$+ hardware,
not something like ESXi or Xen.
(and CPU/RAM/hardware can be dedicated to the LPAR if needed)
These boxes are meant for heavy lifting, the same type of frames power AIX,
iSeries, IBM mainframe, and Watson.
Is there a way to test? It seems like I'm heading into the unknown here. :)
You could get a dedicated NTP box such as:
http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=272
and scatter a few or a dozen around your enterprise. Brand new hardware!
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Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu
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