On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Tom Sightler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 12:15 -0400, Vanco Backup wrote: > >> Had to download 8 ISOs last week - was getting like 50k averages and a >> billion disconnects. Something definitely wrong @ the core of RHN > > I received the following response to my SR: > > "Yes, we are aware of intermittent outages happening with RHN. > The reason for the same can be defined as with the introduction > of virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, we enabled > customers to leverage this new technology to change many aspects > about the way they utilized Linux and their applications. > However, the difficulty with supporting a new paradigm like > virtualization is that predicting the usage patterns from > customers is very difficult. Over the last few months, the > increased usage in the virtualization space coupled with the > heavy usage of RHN has caused intermittent outages for our > customers. We are actively working to respond to these incidents > as well as making sure that we maintain our capacity to meet our > customer demands." > > So basically, they know the services levels are not what they should be > and they have some excuses for that. While I guess it's good to know > that they are aware of the problems and are working on them, it still > feels a little wrong that they are experiencing so many problems without > a single public announcement, at least I'm not aware of an announcement.
Sounds to me like the price of Satellite needs to come _way_ down.... There's two ways to fix this - RH can buy a butt-load of new servers and bandwidth, or they can find a way to reduce the requirement, and that's Satellite (and Proxy) IMO - you should push for a discounted license..... but then that means you'll have to manage it... _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
