Expansion plans
New project for next January. We are getting ready to expand our lab and plan to install a terminal with large displays at each bench. The bench will support one or two projects and I hate the thought of setting up 6 new SL 6.4's so there is access to schematics, parts lists, layouts, and drawings. In the past we have used NFS to do this. I have thought about setting up a VMware server and running SL 5.10 and Windows under it. The problem is how to tie it all to one or two servers in the shop without this turning into a big dog performance wise. Since we plan to use the same hardware we need to mod all SL6.4 so that Ethernet works correctly. SL5.10 works out of the box. We really like the Gigabyte boards and AMD quad cores. We quit buying other brands because of bad brown capacitors that bulge and start leaking before the board / processor fails. When you start replacing 50 or so boards it is a real problem. Wile we are at it we need to set up other boxes for shop, receiving and shipping with printers. I hate to say this we are still running a sneaker net. We are basically an electronic engineering company that is looking more like a factory. Thanks Larry Linder
Re: Expansion plans
On 12/15/2013 03:17 PM, Larry Linder wrote: New project for next January. We are getting ready to expand our lab and plan to install a terminal with large displays at each bench. The bench will support one or two projects and I hate the thought of setting up 6 new SL 6.4's so there is access to schematics, parts lists, layouts, and drawings. In the past we have used NFS to do this. I have thought about setting up a VMware server and running SL 5.10 and Windows under it. The problem is how to tie it all to one or two servers in the shop without this turning into a big dog performance wise. Since we plan to use the same hardware we need to mod all SL6.4 so that Ethernet works correctly. SL5.10 works out of the box. We really like the Gigabyte boards and AMD quad cores. We quit buying other brands because of bad brown capacitors that bulge and start leaking before the board / processor fails. When you start replacing 50 or so boards it is a real problem. Wile we are at it we need to set up other boxes for shop, receiving and shipping with printers. I hate to say this we are still running a sneaker net. We are basically an electronic engineering company that is looking more like a factory. Sounds like the perfect use for LTSP: https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/ Basically a couple of packages to install on a normal SL system plus a client image to install and you are good to go. there may even be a live CD/USB if you want to try it out that way. The terminals (clients) can be very lightweight and are typically diskless (boot off the network with PXE). I mostly use Atom all-in-one systems. Even the server doesn't have to be too big if you aren't doing anything particularly CPU or RAM intensive. It's a bit of configuring and messing around to get it all the way you want it up front but having only one box to maintain is a sysadmin dream and is highly worth the effort in my experience. Jeff
Re: Expansion plans
Look ahh the stock virtualization under SL6 with oVirt as a manager especially if you have any real time requirements as long as you don't over book the CPU cores or if you need PCIe pass through of hardware cards its a much better choice than VMware.For authentication look at FreeIPAAnd for unified storage Gluster with Samba 4 and CTDB will integrate your storage nicely.-- Sent from my HP Pre3On Dec 15, 2013 15:37, Jeff Siddall n...@siddall.name wrote: On 12/15/2013 03:17 PM, Larry Linder wrote: New project for next January. We are getting ready to expand our lab and plan to install a terminal with large displays at each bench. The bench will support one or two projects and I hate the thought of setting up 6 new SL 6.4's so there is access to schematics, parts lists, layouts, and drawings. In the past we have used NFS to do this. I have thought about setting up a VMware server and running SL 5.10 and Windows under it. The problem is how to tie it all to one or two servers in the shop without this turning into a big dog performance wise. Since we plan to use the same hardware we need to mod all SL6.4 so that Ethernet works correctly. SL5.10 works out of the box. We really like the Gigabyte boards and AMD quad cores. We quit buying other brands because of bad brown capacitors that bulge and start leaking before the board / processor fails. When you start replacing 50 or so boards it is a real problem. Wile we are at it we need to set up other boxes for shop, receiving and shipping with printers. I hate to say this we are still running a "sneaker net". We are basically an electronic engineering company that is looking more like a factory. Sounds like the perfect use for LTSP: https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/ Basically a couple of packages to install on a normal SL system plus a client image to install and you are good to go. there may even be a live CD/USB if you want to try it out that way. The terminals (clients) can be very lightweight and are typically diskless (boot off the network with PXE). I mostly use Atom all-in-one systems. Even the server doesn't have to be too big if you aren't doing anything particularly CPU or RAM intensive. It's a bit of configuring and messing around to get it all the way you want it up front but having only one "box" to maintain is a sysadmin dream and is highly worth the effort in my experience. Jeff
