[SLUG] data centers
To take another Dean Hamstead thread back to the list: If you have problems with you SAN drivers in redhat, perhaps you should be calling redhat or your vendor - not asking on slug. (a) SLUG stands for Sydney Linux Users Group. I don't see anything in the title that implies Sydney Linux non-data-center Users Group. (b) If you call Red Hat or your SAN vendor you will get a very biased view point. The usual response is well, buy our X product and we will sell you some consulting time and you can pay us large numbers of dollars and your problem may or may not be fixed. There is no active forum for data center Linux sysadmins to talk about what may or may not be best practice for this sort of environment -- is satellite really the way to go to manage a large number of Linux boxes in a data center or would we be better off with Red Carpet or something? Who uses Clariion machines and what are the specs like vs the later EMC gear, and what version of the Linux driver do you use in that kernel? What's the best JVM to use on Linux? So (in the interests of improving SLUG) perhaps it's time for a data centers mailing list @slug.org.au -- keep it vendor neutral and get some of the folks working in the larger data centers involved. A possible new source of SLUG members, and maybe some of the slug regulars might learn a thing or two, even if only off the list archives? I'd be happy to moderate/admin. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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quote who=Del So (in the interests of improving SLUG) perhaps it's time for a data centers mailing list @slug.org.au I think that's an extremely awkward 'first topic split' for SLUG. It was a tough call to split off the chat list a few years back, but ultimately I think that was successful. If we were to start splitting off topic-specific lists, I can think of a few broader topics which would make *vastly* more sense (and be less risky) than 'data centre'. - Jeff -- FISL 7.0: Porto Alegre, Brazilhttp://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/www/ What did the sausage say to the tomato at breakfast? There's not mushroom this morning, is there? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Del So (in the interests of improving SLUG) perhaps it's time for a data centers mailing list @slug.org.au I think that's an extremely awkward 'first topic split' for SLUG. It was a tough call to split off the chat list a few years back, but ultimately I think that was successful. If we were to start splitting off topic-specific lists, I can think of a few broader topics which would make *vastly* more sense (and be less risky) than 'data centre'. In retrospect I agree, but perhaps it's something we can consider down the track, once the other topic lists are up and running and successful. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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This one time, at band camp, Del wrote: So (in the interests of improving SLUG) perhaps it's time for a data centers mailing list @slug.org.au -- keep it vendor neutral and get some of the folks working in the larger data centers involved. A possible new source of SLUG members, and maybe some of the slug regulars might learn a thing or two, even if only off the list archives? I'm not in favour of splitting a DC only or a newbies list; diluting this list makes it less useful. Keeping us debian zealots in check once ina while is a far more acceptable solution, IMHO. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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del == del [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: del To take another Dean Hamstead thread back to the list: If you have problems with you SAN drivers in redhat, perhaps you should be calling redhat or your vendor - not asking on slug. del (a) SLUG stands for Sydney Linux Users Group. I don't see del anything in the title that implies Sydney Linux non-data-center del Users Group. Or non-HPC-users users group. HPC has very similar issues to Data-Centre; most places are using ROCKS or similar which is redhat based, or SLES on the large NUMA machines. My experience is that vendors use Debian unstable in their research environment, and ship RedHat or Suse to their customers --- because they need the flexibility in house, and the stability and extra features that come with the more commercially oriented distros for their customers. SAN is a case in point; cluster management, performance management, and capacity planning tools are another. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Jeff Waugh wrote:
I can think of a few broader topics which would make *vastly* more
sense (and be less risky) than 'data centre'.
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