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Building massive IaaS clouds

Submitted by sysadmin1138 on December 10, 2012 - 2:24 pm

David Nalley taught a class today on building massive IaaS clouds. Massive is a bit of a loose term, but the consensus is that’s “over 1000 physical nodes”. The session was fairly CloudStack centric, but the overall issues facing such deployments are common no matter what the actual framework is being used.

A key quote:

“Getting to thousands of physical hosts is complex -- getting to tens of thousands of physical hosts is a completely different magnitude of problem.”

Sunday at LISA12 - VMware vCloud

Submitted by Matt Simmons on December 10, 2012 - 12:22 pm

Ah, Sunday at LISA. Every year, I remember what it's like, and every year, I still get taken by surprise.

MongoDB: NoSQL Operations Hands-On

Submitted by sysadmin1138 on December 9, 2012 - 8:33 pm

This blog entry is from Greg Riedesel (http://sysadmin1138.net)

Nuri Halprin taught the MongoDB: NoSQL Operations Hands On class this afternoon. The intent of this class was to give sysadmins a solid familiarization of MongoDB and those things near and dear to our heart: high-availability and disaster recovery.

RPM Packaging for Systems

Submitted by Matt Simmons on December 9, 2012 - 3:12 pm

This blog entry is from Greg Riedesel (http://sysadmin1138.net)

David Nally taught RPM Packaging for Systems this morning at LISA '12. There were a few absentees, but as David pointed out, it was early on a Sunday so some of that is to be expected. That didn't stop him though.

He opened up with a slide-deck to give background on why package management is a good thing, and why we as sysadmins need to be doing more of it. Not just RPM, but package-management of anything, be it .debs, Microsoft MSI's, or ruby Gems.

Meet the LISA '12 Instructors: Ben Lin on vCloud Architecture

Submitted by rikki on December 7, 2012 - 12:56 pm

Matt Simmons interviews LISA '12 instructor Ben Lin.

LISA '12 Reception: Shaken, not Stirred

Submitted by rikki on December 6, 2012 - 9:22 am

Matt Simmons offers a preview of our party:

Every year, the reception at LISA is just a little different. Last year, the Back to the Future themed conference took us to the 1980s, where we had arcade machines and awesome toys from the time period.

This year, keeping with the Secret Agent theme, we're having a Shaken, Not Stirred reception, and USENIX has pulled out all the stops.

New at LISA: Training Program Live Streaming

Submitted by rikki on December 5, 2012 - 1:24 pm

Meet the LISA '12 Instructors: David Blank-Edelman on Implementing WordPress

Submitted by rikki on December 3, 2012 - 10:36 am

As we continue ramping up to LISA '12, we've posted a series of interviews with event organizers and instructors. In this installment, Matt Simmons interviews David Blank-Edelman.

Meet the LISA '12 Instructors: William LeFebvre on Using Amazon Web Services

Submitted by rikki on November 30, 2012 - 11:02 am

In this interview, Matt Simmons talks to LISA '12 instructor William LeFebvre.

Prior to a couple of years ago, "in the cloud" meant a term of abstraction, coming from the network diagram icon, meaning "we don't control this area of the network". A cloud meant that you didn't know or care about it, for the purposes of the discussion at hand.

Meet the LISA '12 Speakers: Geoff Halprin on infrastructure provisioning, agile software development, and the one word that describes system administration

Submitted by rikki on November 28, 2012 - 11:37 am

Geoff Halprin has a long history with USENIX, SAGE, and LISA and wrote the book on system administration. (Actually, he wrote a couple of books on system administration.) In this interview, Geoff offers a preview of his LISA '12 talks and provides tips for first-time LISA attendees. Geoff also picks a new word that best describes systems administration.

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