[AusNOG] Back of envelope II

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

And people wonder why I stopped doing server stuff professionally  
around a decade ago.

MMC

On 06/03/2009, at 2:38 PM, David Hughes wrote:

>
> On 06/03/2009, at 12:34 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
>
>> The ONLY solid way that I know to do good server redundancy is with
>> Virtual Platforms that support SAN, Fibre Channel/iSCSI with diverse
>> heads.
>
> And then your SAN storage goes flop and things look bad all over.  And
> anyone familiar with the QA of IBM storage controller firmware will
> know the feeling.
>
> So, add into that a SAN virtualisation layer, like IBM SVC so that you
> have the same data on multiple SANs
>
> And then add in a second datacentre for "real" redundancy.  Naturally,
> you''ll need layer 2 ethernet and fibre channel between those sites.
>
> Then clone yourself so multiple people have exactly the same skill
> set  ;-)
>
>
> I guess everyone has to pick their point in the "price vs return"  
> curve.
>
>
> David
> ...
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