Archive for December, 2009

Active/Active or N+1?

Monday, December 21st, 2009

If your infrastructure has to be up at all times (or as much as possible), how to best achieve that?  In an Active/Active configuration, where all parts of the infrastructure are used all the time, or in an N+1 configuration, where there are idle resources waiting to take over in ...

When an OID is not an OID

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

It's still surprising to me that hardware and software manufacturers do not seem to value any kind of consistency in their management interfaces.  Or maybe it's intentional, to complicate monitoring and management of their systems to encourage the purchase of the vendors own monitoring systems. In any event, it makes the ...

Simple ways to start addressing DataCenter power needs

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Anyone that run's IT infrastructure is aware that power consumption is one of the biggest costs in datacenter provisioning and ongoing expenses.  If they are not, they will soon become aware, as energy costs are predicted to increase in the future, and are the fastest rising cost in the datacenter. Maximizing ...