Chris Moore
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I am only responsible for the equipment in five racks of the datacenter where I work (the department I work for) and the workstations that utilize the data in those systems and my dev lab with the additional servers and workstations in there. Then I have three servers and some workstations at home because I just don't get enough at work.Chris, do you have something not at work? :D :D :D
PS. Those five racks that I have to monitor and maintain are a tiny fraction of the whole datacenter. Each row of racks in the primary datacenter is thirty racks long and it is about twenty isles back to where the two tape libraries are and they take up the rest of back of the space. I switched departments about a year ago, so I don't have to deal with any of the other things any more, but I was in my old department when we disassembled the old tape libraries to move them out. Just to give you a sense of scale about it, these are the robotic arm tape libraries that are taller and deeper than a full server rack and the racks that make up the tape library are all bolted together with a passage down the middle for the arms to traverse the length of the assembly. The software that runs the SAN automatically moves data from hot storage in the SSD portion of the SAN, to warm storage in the HDD portion of the SAN and into cold storage on the tapes based on the frequency with which the data is requested. I worked with the team that SUN/Oracle sent in when they were installing it, and it runs ZFS too.
I found a video of one that is very similar to ours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZwl7zSfxCI
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