Large server setup question

Jleo

Jleo

Jleo

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I did a quick google images for this just impressions no real images does anyone have pictures or links to pics of a working network/isp server room?
 
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Like that?
 
What sort of management would that require? as in actual people for service work. Could 1 person maintain it?
 
Surprisingly few, all the management and config work will be from a central console.

To give you an idea, when where I work was in its real heyday we had probably 5000+ machines on a campus over a mile long. The entire network was managed by 5 guys and a couple of contract sparks for the cabling.
 
rpstewart said:
Surprisingly few, all the management and config work will be from a central console.

To give you an idea, when where I work was in its real heyday we had probably 5000+ machines on a campus over a mile long. The entire network was managed by 5 guys and a couple of contract sparks for the cabling.
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Maybe this is a silly question but here goes :)
In a setup like this did you find that users reporting problems that had to be invetigated is where the most time is spent? or was the mangement software able to id problems as they occured ?
 
Jleo said:
What sort of management would that require? as in actual people for service work. Could 1 person maintain it?
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Absolutetly, if you've got a decent snmp setup and network visualisation s/w.
 
Jleo said:
Maybe this is a silly question but here goes :)
In a setup like this did you find that users reporting problems that had to be invetigated is where the most time is spent? or was the mangement software able to id problems as they occured ?
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User problems don't usually come down to the guys who maintain the physical infrastructure. 5000 servers would have a completely separate application support team/department.
 
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