I Haven't Died....

Thursday 16 August 2007 at 7:30 pm

Or anything... It's just been busy, really busy at work. But we have gotten:

• Fedora 7 and CentOS 5 to authenticate against Active Directory
• A CentOS 5 linux server to serve up home directories (including roving profiles) to Linux, Unix, and Windows clients with AD Kerberos
• Sun Ray Server Software (running Sun Ray thin clients) on CentOS 5 working with AD and Linux NFS home directories

And you know what? CentOS 5, serving NFS home directories off of a SATA array, is between 6 and 20 times faster than our (decent) Solaris SPARC servers with fibre channel array using Solaris 10. They were here before I was, but they're only like 10 months old. They should be *FASTER* than Linux.

More soon.

Sun 3510 and 3511 Disk Arrays

Thursday 02 August 2007 at 1:51 pm We have 2 Sun StorEdge 35XX disk arrays. Two Solaris hosts are directly attached to a Sun StorEdge 3510 Fibre Channel Array. One linux host has a similar Sun StorEdge 3511 Fibre Channel Array. The 3510 uses 10K RPM FC disks (fast), the 3511 uses slower (but larger) 7.2K RPM SATA disks. Other than that, the arrays are very similar. I didn't think much of them (why don't we have a *REAL* SAN?) but they are decent little arrays... (more)