Last week I had the pleasure of configuring 4 OES Linux SLES Servers in a production environment. Normally this would be a average task for me with nothing exciting, except that additional goals existed.
The environment existed of ESX 2.5x a SAN and other existing NetWare ESX boxes. The goal was to consolidate the existing 13 NetWare file servers to a 4 node cluster and use SLES, which seems to handle memory better when running on ESX than NetWare. I was also to configure templates with the OES SLES configuration so that it would be easy for the customer to deploy additional servers as required with minimal cleanup.
I was able to configure SLES with very few tweaks in such a way that the admin could have a SLES server fully functional in 15 minutes. It was very beautiful.
About Me
- Jared
- The Halloween kid currently works as a Senior Systems Engineer at Data Technique, Inc., a Novell Platinum Partner located in Kansas and Missouri. He started supporting networks at 10 and hasn't stopped. Instantly falling in love with NetWare, Linux, and receiving a CNE certification at 19, he enthusiastically supports networks and can be found in the OS, ZENworks, and Administration-tools forums.