[geeks] Sun-HOWTO

[Joshua Fielden]

actually, myself and my team of three owned 9 of the servers, leaving 8
people for the other 2,992. But I took 52 of the raw TB off of their hands
myself, with three really big servers. and being in an N+1 setup, it was
often easier to jumpstart than troubleshoot for production issues. My old
boss gave a great talk at Vision 2000 about how we couldn't have done it
without lots and lots of Veritas software to help us manage all that disk.

We also had ~1GB (yes, Gig) of documentation, best-practices, FAQ, product
specs, and other administrativa to help us, and a mature staff. We also had
possibly the best tools team ever assembled helping us. Almost the whole
tools team left, to found a company that now sells 'monitoring and
infrastructure in a box' based on what we had there, it was so robust.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Kirby" <kris at catonic.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Sun-HOWTO


> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Joshua Fielden wrote:
> > A failing dot-com I worked at once upon a time had 12 people for ~3k
> > machines and 140TB (aggregate) of enterprise storage... You are
overstaffed.
> > ;)
>
> That's 250 machines and 11 Terabytes of storage apiece....
>
> I don't think I want to be a sysadmin no more....
>
> -----
> Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
> <kris at nospam.catonic.net>   |
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