Re: [lopsa-tech] Cloud Databases?

2010-10-12 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
PostgreSQL can excel in the cloud. Make sure to use XLarge High CPU instances if you're on Amazon. I have a copy of EnterpriseDB's presentation (slides) to Los Angeles Postgres Users Group from about a year ago at http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/tech/PostgreSQL_Cloud.pdf with more details, inclu

Re: [lopsa-tech] Configuration management on AIX

2010-10-12 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Brad Knowles wrote: > On Oct 12, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > >> What do y'all think? Any other options I should dig into? > > Tivoli? I mean, it's an IBM product, right? Very true, but I'm not working at IBM now, so I can look at other options. -- Matt It's no

Re: [lopsa-tech] Configuration management on AIX

2010-10-12 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Nick Silkey wrote: > AIX? Old SPARC Solaris? Tru64? If yes, then definitely cfengine. > Save yourself the headache and let the Ruby loose the Ubuntii and the > CentOSen! The SPARC Solaris boxes were decomissioned last month. The Tru64 systems are scheduled to be gone by

Re: [lopsa-tech] Configuration management on AIX

2010-10-12 Thread Brad Knowles
On Oct 12, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > What do y'all think? Any other options I should dig into? Tivoli? I mean, it's an IBM product, right? -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists

Re: [lopsa-tech] Configuration management on AIX

2010-10-12 Thread Nick Silkey
AIX? Old SPARC Solaris? Tru64? If yes, then definitely cfengine. Save yourself the headache and let the Ruby loose the Ubuntii and the CentOSen! -Nick Silkey On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > > I'm looking for suggestions and experience with configuration management > sy

Re: [lopsa-tech] Configuration management on AIX

2010-10-12 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Cfengine certainly runs on AIX systems, just as it runs on pretty much anything UNIX-like. Its minimal dependencies translate into very high portability - it runs on anything from cell phones to underwater autonomous vehicles. I don't have anything else to recommend, but I appreciate you're doing

Re: [lopsa-tech] Configuration management on AIX

2010-10-12 Thread Nick Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/12/2010 03:15 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > > I'm looking for suggestions and experience with configuration management > systems for managing several hundred AIX systems. I'm thinking that > cfengine might be the best choice. As fond as I am

[lopsa-tech] Configuration management on AIX

2010-10-12 Thread Matt Lawrence
I'm looking for suggestions and experience with configuration management systems for managing several hundred AIX systems. I'm thinking that cfengine might be the best choice. As fond as I am of Puppet and Chef, they require Ruby which is not currently installed. It is posible to add it in,