taking care of 8 machines hosted at variois locations and running
development and support services for a large community.
- * **DevelerCompany's IT infrastructure** - Leveraging
- my earlier work for SiriusCompany, for over 6 years I've
- been continuously growing and restructuring the network,
- the servers and their intricate mesh of services and
- support scripts. The main server, called {{trinity}},
- contains 1TB of storage and offers file storage, user
- authentication, e-mail, and many web-based services to a
- highly heterogeneous and complex environment comprising
- several versions of Linux, MacOsX and Windows clients.
- Another server, called {{asterisk}}, acts as a VoIP PBX
- and secondary slave for many (but not all) of {{trinity}}'s
- services.
+ * **DevelerCompany's IT infrastructure** - For over 6
+ years I've been continuously growing and restructuring
+ the network, the servers and their intricate mesh of
+ services and support scripts. The main server, called
+ ##trinity##, contains 1TB of storage and offers file storage,
+ user authentication, e-mail, and many web-based services to a
+ highly heterogeneous and complex environment comprising several
+ versions of Linux, MacOsX and Windows clients. Additional servers
+ act as VoIP PBX and secondary slave for many (but not all) of
+ ##trinity##'s services.
* ** http://www.fieremostre.it/ ** - A cluster of 4 RedHat
- servers, two web frontends and Java appservers and two
- database and filesystem backends with hw SCSI RAID5.
+ servers, two web front-ends and Java appservers and two
+ database and filesystem back-ends with SCSI RAID5.
Fully managed remotely, including power fencing and
robotized tape juggler.
to implement a shared storage pool of 1.5TB with GFS1.
The system initially went to production without the GFS
pool because of reliability concerns with this new
- technlogy.
+ technology.
* '''Genexpress Lab''' - A combo of two servers, each
acting as a gateway and file server for a security ring.
of the University of Firenze, in Prato's Scientific Center.
My philosophy is using mainstream hardware whenever possible
-and concentrate most services on few phisical systems.
+and concentrate most services on few physical systems.
The savings in cost can be used to increase availability and
performance through redundancy. This strategy leads to
-datacenters that are easy to understand and maintain, while
+data-centers that are easy to understand and maintain, while
at the same time scaling up much better than
traditional asymmetrical solutions (like web server,
mail server, db server...).
-Being fond of UNIX culture, I tend to keep my systems as
-open as possible and at the same time very secure.
+Being particularly fond of the UNIX culture, I tend to keep
+my systems as open as possible while at the same time very secure.
-TODO: add a list of server software I use/know
+TODO: add a list of server software I use/know