> That's a good question. Was wondering what all of you with > 5 systems > do about that. Right now we maintain them individually (it wasn't that > long ago that we had 1 system). Now I'm hearing rumblings about maybe > adding 2-4 more systems for capacity/availability reasons... If we go > from 6 to 10, that's a lot more VM work. Not just VM, but all the other > stuff.. (velocity, ca stuff..)
Don't have that many now, but in a past life, I used TOOLSRUN to maintain disks on multiple systems. I maintained a master system, and checked changes into TOOLSRUN, which conveniently distributed the changes to all the other systems in the complex. TOOLSRUN had the ability to have exceptions to the distribution, and you could define your own sets of systems to use as distribution targets. You still had to do things like SALIPL updates and such on each system, but that's a lot less work. I suppose I could have automated those too, but I'm fundamentally lazy. That setup depended on RSCS everywhere, but that's not too awful a price to bear.
