A whole bunch of new hardware!
A big yay for the boxes that arrived today! Three new bad-ass servers, a bunch of memory, several hard disks and two gigabit switches. Pretty sweet stuff to go and play around with, right? Sure, it creates a load of work to get it all up and running, but ey, it is a fun job to do! This hardware was all ordered because of the stuff I learned at the course I attended in Saint Petersburg the other week. It sometimes is hard to convince management to do large investments, but the course armed me with loads of ammo. I mean, it is better to spend a little more to prevent loads of trouble at a later time, then spending less and get in a shitload of trouble. Which will cost you a lot more then when you would have invested just a bit better in a more expensive, but stable solution.
So, what am I going to do with the new stuff? Two of the servers will be used as database servers, running linux and mysql. All scsi based. Yes, those two are beasts! Well, they should be, because they are the base for a real-time system, with quite a lot of queries running. One of the servers will be a slave for reporting. Besides the new servers, some “old” ones I already have here, will be upgraded. Three dialers and two webservers. All tux based of course. The dialers with asterisk and the webservers with apache.
All of them will work together with Vicidial. Yes, it’s a shitload of work to get it all up and running and put them all in the racks, but ey, it’s a fun job! Better go and get started now…
