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Comment on Linux Server Survives Total RAID Failure by James Hicks

James Hicks — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:01:51 +0000

eh?

Comment on Linux Server Survives Total RAID Failure by pop3

pop3 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:07:11 +0000

RAID redundancies maybe, but the controller has failed… unless you mean multiple servers, which would be preferable.

Comment on So you want to be a Systems Administrator? Part 2 by James Hicks

James Hicks — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:14:43 +0000

All kinds of courses might help… Cisco is more for the network engineer path - a CCNA can’t hurt a sysadmin but they did seem to be very easy to get a few years ago (less so now apparently).

There are a lot of lesser known linux courses out there, but they’re lesser known… don’t bother. If RHCE’s too rough go RHCT.

Ubuntu getting into corporate space? Really? Not that I’ve seen, it’s still largely viewed as a toy.

If you’re trying to break into the systems administration job market, read the next part of the series on doing exactly that

Comment on So you want to be a Systems Administrator? Part 2 by aguy

aguy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:36:05 +0000

agreed.people just need experience. i have seen nerds getting jobs without degree.
questions:
im college(CompSci) dropout.are there any courses other than rhce that could help me get a sysadmin job? ubuntu is getting into corporate space too, what do you feel about it? plus any chances getting a SA job with just ciscos?

Comment on Linux Server Survives Total RAID Failure by person435

person435 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:34:00 +0000

I dont know if you were the “owner” of the lab, but shouldn’t you make sure you have redundancies? I mean I bet you had a box full of replacement drives in the event that one died or several. I think keeping stock is important and having replacement raid controllers is sysadmin 101. Good job at fixing the problem.. But a bad job on who ever was responsible for keeping operation critical components in stock.

Comment on Linux Server Survives Total RAID Failure by James Hicks

James Hicks — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:21:14 +0000

Hey person435.

Replace the raid controller fast? Sure, if you have one spare. If not, enjoy that two week supplier delay, or at best the hours waiting for your support to turn up with a spare - assuming they’ve the brains to bring one.

Nothing is faster than continuing with a broken part.

Nowadays where I work we have many clusters… at the time this article is written about, the site I worked at had very few services clustered.

Comment on Linux Server Survives Total RAID Failure by person435

person435 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:44:25 +0000

mmmm…. why not just replace the raid controller? that would have been the fastest… also. you make this sound very dramatic when its really one of the smallest problems you can run into, and dont you have a cluster of servers, in the even that one goes down the others can take up the slack…

Comment on So you want to be a Systems Administrator? Part 2 by Clarkson

Clarkson — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:22:57 +0000

JamesJ: retired, old guy with the same old tired crap about degrees. I’m doing just fine without ANY post secondary schooling, I work for myself. No idiot bosses with degrees and their bloated sense of importance. Anything else?

Comment on 3Ware 24 Disk 600MB/sec RAID6: An affordable mini-SAN? by James Hicks

James Hicks — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:43:09 +0000

Just go to the 3Ware site and find a local distributor.

Regarding tests: I haven’t got hold of recent 3Ware equipment but their earlier 9xxx series worked precisely as advertised; I personally benchmarked them two companies ago.

cheers,
James

Comment on 3Ware 24 Disk 600MB/sec RAID6: An affordable mini-SAN? by Naim

Naim — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:12:34 +0000

can i have the price of this device and the availability in MEA if not how can i have it?

Thanks