Re: [lopsa-tech] full system backup

2010-12-20 Thread Stephen Potter
On 12/20/2010 7:31 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Nobody uses matlab? Labview? Not everybody gets a license of visio and > project, do they? Every user has a different set of licensed software, > based on their job requirements and preferences ... There are tools that are useful for pushing lic

Re: [lopsa-tech] Neat patch and/or your favorite cable management solution

2012-07-11 Thread Stephen Potter
On 7/11/2012 12:23 AM, Gilbert Wilson wrote: I'm building out a new data room and wanted to know if anyone has used neatpatch. http://www.neatpatch.com/ It looks like a nice straight-forward solution to an all too common problem I've encountered over the years in just about every data room I'

Re: [lopsa-tech] fibrechannel patch panels

2012-10-13 Thread Stephen Potter
On 10/11/2012 7:24 PM, Adam Levin wrote: Yeah, thanks. I think it is very strange that nobody had solved this common problem, but we ended up breaking them apart and flipping the sides after all. It is rough with so many cables at once. Adam, in our datacenters (big enterprise hosting and clou

Re: [lopsa-tech] Cable management arms

2013-04-12 Thread Stephen Potter
On 4/10/2013 11:10 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote: We just received a bunch of 1U servers with cable managment arms (customer ordered the arms) and I though I would appeal to the collective wisdom of LOPSA. It has been years since I have used cable managment arms and even then, they were on much larg

Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-03-25 Thread Stephen Potter
On 3/25/2014 7:57 AM, Jonathan wrote: I realise that no currently-produced Apple kit is on the vSphere HCL. My question is whether you have any experience of the new Mac Pro with vSphere, including multiple NICs and FC connections. The response from our local suppliers has been "let us know h

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Overload and Log Processing

2015-08-28 Thread Stephen Potter
This kind of situation is exactly what tools like Splunk and VMware's Log Insight were designed for. Tools like these offer both automatic log parsing/analysis and a nice front-end for manual searching. The stack of logstash, elasticsearch, and kibana (and watcher) all from elastic.co might b

[lopsa-tech] Operationalize Satellite 6 Project Plan

2015-10-28 Thread Stephen Potter
As kind of a follow on to my response to the question Tom posted over on discuss, has anyone ever gone through a formal project to operationalize Satellite 6 (or, the underlying Puppet and Foreman components) and would be willing/able to share the plan documentation? I'm talking things like ti

[lopsa-tech] Foreman subnet migration management

2015-11-15 Thread Stephen Potter
I'm building out a foreman environment (technically, RH Satellite 6.1) to do provisioning and management of Linux VMs at my current client (soon-to-be employer). At the moment, they do the majority of their builds by cloning an existing server (and bringing along all the junk and baggage that