On Wed, May 10, 2006 10:34, Rick Welykochy wrote: > The separation of responsibilities is a practical one. If a new box > needs to be cloned, the sysadmins should be able to do it in a few > hours, based on the documented existing server. Then I should be able > to grab a database replica, deploy the source code and test the app > within another few hours.
This is where virtualisation, esp. with Xen, comes to the fore. The ability to clone off a copy of a server is a matter of minutes and then it can later be migrated back into production. That's the theory, at least... > > As well, once the software app has been signed off and accepted by the > client, I should be able to be hit by a bus without consequence: the > sysadmins can continue to run the flawless (!haha!) system with very > little intervention or tweaking. -- Howard LANNet Computing Associates <http://lannet.com.au> When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
