catwho wrote:
As for the Win 2003 servers, we virtualized most of them to get them off the dying hardware and now we're trying to peel away all the crap they actually had to run.
VMware clusters are surprisingly great for server migration projects - way easier than the bare metal restore I'm going to attempt tomorrow...
Yeah, we're learning that over here. The boss finally sprang for a new server since our main production server is old as dirt and slowly dying, so we're setting up some virtual servers on it. I can't get over how gorramn nice it is to just go "oh we botched the configuration? No worries, just reload the snapshot from before we made a mess of the server" and be back up and running within minutes.
It's also one step closer to realizing my goal of getting this company's server infrastructure to be more modular. I've lost track of the number of times I've set up a server to fulfill a specific need and two months later find that it's become a file server, a dev server, a production server and hosts the company time card system too. It's like, "what were you guys planning to do if that machine went down?".
Edited, Mar 8th 2013 12:14pm by cidbahamut ____________________________
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IcookPizza wrote:
I think RDM's neurotic omniscience is sooooooo worth including in any alliance.
