This week we’ve finally seen the end of some things I’ve been trying to sort out for some time now.
- The old storage arrays (Sun T3s and A1000s) are finally gone. The T3 arrays in particular have caused us endless grief over the past few years, so I’m more than happy to see them go. It also marks the end of a year long project to centralise our filestore on our resilient cluster. No more losing access to our files when one machine goes down
- Our last Solaris 8 machine has been decommissioned. We’d stopped supporting it a while ago, but this finally puts the nail in the coffin. More importantly it means I can focus on moving towards Solaris 10, which I hadn’t done until now because I didn’t want to be running 3 different versions of Solaris at once!
- We’ve finally removed the last non-rackmountable machine from the racks. Actually, it wasn’t even in our racks, so it means we’re now entirely self-contained within our own area. This is something I’ve been trying to do for many years.
So I’m now spending some time looking at Solaris 10 and trying to see how we can integrate the new “features” in to our existing systems. The main problem areas seem to be the service management stuff. I’ll undoubtedly post more about that in the future.
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