X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=SystemAdministratorRole;h=be4a939ce483f16b41e09875c29007f2263b6ff3;hp=5ad7f9e4c59e4c146d2ce67d819af255d7d6f49f;hb=b2ac7df701a0e50481f1406f8dea8dc15d76a6d7;hpb=83ecb8f1f628c2d73c1f701325de6322cc7970c7 diff --git a/SystemAdministratorRole b/SystemAdministratorRole index 5ad7f9e..be4a939 100644 --- a/SystemAdministratorRole +++ b/SystemAdministratorRole @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ I've been taking care of boxes since my first job as an EmployedWorker and in the '90s I've been providing free telecommunication service to a total of 450 registered -users with my own BullettinBoardSystem called SystemShockBbs. +users with my own BullettinBoardSystem called [[SystemShockBBS]]. I've been using a wide variety of different OSes, see SystemArchitectRole for a list. @@ -18,22 +18,24 @@ production systems, all of which are still in service: 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. + * **[[http://fsf.org/ | Free Software Foundation]]**'s virtualization infrastructure -- + I've been the fall system administrator intern in 2009. My main job was to set up and + evaluate a fault-tolerant virtualization cluster based on XEN and DRBD. + + * **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. @@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ production systems, all of which are still in service: 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. @@ -51,16 +53,16 @@ production systems, all of which are still in service: 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