On 07/03/11 18:35, Peter Grandi wrote:
> On 07/03/11 15:18, Sam Skipsey wrote:
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>> I also feel I should note that Tier-2 sites are not expected to have
>> Tier-1 levels of resiliency or redundancy, which appears to be what
>> you're trying to approach. ;)
One can aspire to this of course - and there are some things that are
easy to do.
>
> More resilience and redundancy for our grid systems would mean that
> I can delay responding to what would otherwise be urgent grid issues
> that would impact non-grid matters where my management requires near-24x7
> availability from both systems and myself. Also, as to grid systems
> themselves, as someone pointed out, if one of our essential grid
> servers fails during Friday night and I don't realize or otherwise
> I am not available until Monday morning, that's our stats for the month gone.
Atom: Why buy new machines when you have old worker nodes that are
presumably sufficiently powerful - and if you have several, then you
don't need to worry about warranty.
VMs: I'd like to do this - at least in part to To be honest, I think
this is probably the way to go. If you have shared storage, Vserver is
presumably Whether
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