MAR – Mar 2009
March 27th, 2009 by Daniel Raymer
WINS
- Routine system patching was performed on 8 servers.
- One of the bastion hosts was moved out of the soon to be removed AMD Stevenson Cluster and into the Intel Stevenson Cluster
- Backup issues were corrected on 3 servers.
- Modification were made to the RHN database server to fix performance issues.
- Progress was made on working with the Software Store to role out RHEL & RHN availability to the University.
- DNS Views have been created in the Diamond IP test environment but only in the database. See "Continuing Issues" for more detail.
- Became ACT Online certified in 2 Information Security modules.
Continuing Issues
- RFC1918 Compliant DNS has been stalled due to application issues that we are still working through with the vendor. The database entries and zones/resources records for the Internal/External BIND views have been created and appears to be correct but we are unable to push out for testing until the application issue is resolved. Hopefully, once the issue is resolved, I can move forward with aggressive testing to get this into Production shortly after Commencement.
- We are rapidly approaching End of Warrenty on our AMD based ESX hosts. Luckily, the Intel 7100 Cluster was built with enough capacity to support the hosts that will need to migrate. A majority of the virtual machines on the AMD Stevenson servers have been migrated to their Intel counter-parts and major progress has been made on the AMD Hill servers. When retirement is completed, our ESX footprint will move from the 20 current hosts down to 12 hosts. That will take our virtual to physical ratio from the current 11.5:1 up to 19.2:1.
- Storage capacity in the ESX environment remains constrained. Consolidation efforts continue but until the Hill-San-6 LUN is replaced, we are maxed out in the ITS Intel Hill clusters. When Hill-San-6 is replaced, we will be down to 800 GB of SAN space for virtual machines.