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Checklist for implementing a 'standard' Windows infrastructure from scratch? [closed]
I'm a recently qualified MCSA/CCNA and when asked if I could build a completely isolated test infrastructure network with a whole pile of decent but unused servers/switches/firewalls/internet ...
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TCPing reports 20ms latency between Web Farm and DB
We have a IIS web farm sitting in a DMZ connecting to a MSSQL DB(Windows Cluster). After troubleshooting some performance problems we stumbled upon strange network behavior.
We wanted to test network ...
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Is There a performance improvement in Windows Azure? [closed]
guys, how are you doing?
This week was annuncied infrastructure-services news, and I had problems with my blog. My first thought was if the CGI services in Azure Web Sites was broken (my blog is ...
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infrastructure of an web app [closed]
I'm curious as to the infrastructure of an web app... is it a network of cloned servers with the same exact app/source code, a network of cloned database servers and a network of media/asset servers ...
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VOIP Power outage strategy
In the past 2 years, we have had 4 instances where we have been without power for a period of 4-6 hours - due to construction crews cutting power lines, car accidents involving downed power lines, ...
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Why IPTV Headend always connected to Router instead of Switch
in all IPTV infrastructure diagrams, I always see the IPTV headend connected to Router even if the IPTV stream only needed in LAN environment. no one explain why they do that. I am asking because we ...
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Infrastructure design recommendations for a simple proxmox setup
I am aware of the dangers of this question being non-constructive so bear in mind I did my best to narrow the possible answers I get.
I am swapping an old dedicated Gentoo server for a new one, and ...
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Inter-site linking with a WAN cluster infrastructure
I am planning to deploy an infrastructure of 11 nodes using Opscode Chef, providing for a high availability web application. I would like to spread the nodes across datacentres for availability, for ...
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What to look for in a server rack?
I'm looking to purchase a rack/enclosure for some servers. As this is my first time shopping for this type of equipment, I need to know what to look for. I'm asking not only about how to buy the rack, ...
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Out of band notification when UPS loses mains power?
We're currently looking into upgrading our UPS and possibly having a small petrol generator on site in the eventuality that the UPS battery is used long enough to drain it completely.
Realistically, ...
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10GBASE-T shielded cable switch-to-server connection
I'm venturing for the first time into the 10 gigabit (over copper) realm. Likewise, I have never worked with shielded CAT-5/6 cables previously. From my own research, I understand the types and ...
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Opscode Chef nginx compile from source issue reports successful run but does nothing
I am trying to install nginx from source in Opscode Chef and its bit weird, it runs complaining nothing but does not install it either.
This is how my role attributes look like looks like
"nginx":{
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On-premise VMware vSphere vs Amazon VPC for small business [closed]
Background
I have been managing all the IT for a small business (owned by a family member) of ~5 users for about 10 years. Since about 2 years the infrastructure is 100% virtual running on VMware ...
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What happens with the Guest OS's on ESXi in the event of a power failure?
Many small businesses would prefer to let their server drop on power failure than to pay even $100 for a cheap UPS. It's often difficult to convince them of the value of something like that; it's why ...
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Rails/Mongo across multiple different geo-regions
I have a system that by necessity requires physical presence in three or more different locations and I need advice on structuring in such a way that my database stays replicated in a timely manner ...
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Standards for documenting/designing infrastructure
We have a moderately complex solution for which we need to construct a production environment.
There are around a dozen components (and here I'm using a definition of "component" which means "can ...
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What piece of software do you recommend to help me keep an inventory of only infrastructure equipment? [closed]
I am aware of the popular suggestions for IT Inventory & Asset tracking software like Spiceworks, GLPI, Open-AudIT, etc.
Unfortunately, these pieces of software are not geared toward my specific ...
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Small store infrastructure - where to begin? [closed]
It looks like my older brother is about to change jobs - from lawyer to shooting range proprietor - and since I'm the family 'computer guy' I have the task of coming up with and setting up the ...
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Creating an office network and monitoring all activity without a proxy
We are setting up our office network and would like to track all the websites visited by our employees. However, we would not like to use any proxy based solutions.
Our work is highly dependent on ...
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How to handle server failure in an n-tier architecture?
Imagine I have an n-tier architecture in an auto-scaled cloud environment with say:
a load balancer in a failover pair
reverse proxy tier
web app tier
db tier
Each tier needs to connect to the ...
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Dynamically loading chef recipies from URLs
I'm deploying a web app on AWS.
I intend to use chef to build AMIs which I'll then put into production.
I want to have Chef monitor a URL stored in simpleDB. The URL would point to a tarball in S3. ...
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How to securely control access to a backend key server?
I need to securely encrypt data in my database so that if the database is dumped, hackers are unable to decrypt the data.
I'm planning on creating a simple key server on a different machine, and ...
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Documenting Client Infrastructure [closed]
Working on a new project, and need some documentation advice. I need to be able to document ~ 400 client sites to track assets, setup, hardware layout, network layout, etc. We want to have photos, ...
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How to involve QA with the Infrastructure Department [closed]
A software company delivers software and hosts the solution on their own servers.
Once, a faulty hardware caused delays, random reboots, service downtime and client disappointment. The backup servers ...
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IT Infrastructure modeling tool [closed]
Is there a specific software for modeling IT infrastructure architectures? I am looking for something like pspice but specifically for IT infrastructure components. I know Microsoft had a tool like ...
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How to model the infrastructure for the Rails application with processor/memory intensive tasks (using EC2)? [closed]
I need to model a Rails application that does video processing using Amazon AWS resources (EC2).
Application allows users to convert videos. Videos are uploaded by users. Right now it is running on ...
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Create a web interface that starts VM's on the server side [closed]
I am creating a service called TorCompute which allows for creating virtual Tor Hidden Service servers on my infrastructure (I say infrastructure, by that I mean just the 3x 32GB RAM machines waiting ...
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Starting a branch office on the other side of the world
Going to cut right to the point on this question, as I'm after as diverse range of solutions as possible so don't want to effect any opinions with the question too much.
Client is a UK based ...
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Bootstrap Linux Server for URL Redirection
I am setting up a nginx/php-fpm only server that will just redirect requests in a very simple way.
I am planing to do this like this:
the request should be as simples as for example ...
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Infrastructure-oriented testing Methodology [closed]
In software development, there are plenty of testing methodology that one can adopt during the software lifecycle.
Is there anyone aware of a testing methodology that is infrastructure oriented or ...
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Windows infrastructure topology and roles/features
I recently started my own company as a freelance .NET developer. Being a developer, network infrastructure and topology isn't my strong suit.
The hardware infrastructure I have available is drawn in ...
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Complete small business infrastructure setup solution [closed]
BACKGROUND:
I am in charge of maintaining the infrastructure of a small (<25 users) family owned business. Here's the setup we currently have.
EMAIL SERVER:
I started out using one ISP ...
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Best infrastructure configuration for application hosting (IIS/MSSQL)? Bare Metal, Virtualize?
We're a small consulting shop that hosts some public facing websites and web applications for clients (apps we've either written or inherited). Our strength lies in coding, not necessarily in server ...
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Thin Client Environments - Where to Start
I'm new to the Thin Client / VDI concept but it seems like my environment might be a good candidate for converting. Currently we run Windows 7, so I would like to investigate a TS/VDI solution with ...
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Backup a large library [closed]
I have a relatively large library of about 50TB that I need to back-up on at least a weekly basis. Currently, the video content is stored across an array of raided 3TB hard drives. I would estimate ...
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How to convince a corporation to use DNS? [closed]
This is not the first time in my life when I have to convince a smaller corporation about using DNS service instead of /etc/hosts files and IP addresses. It might seem silly/funny at the first time, ...
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Book about planning computer network [closed]
I'm looking for a book dealing with creation (building, planning, implementing, ... don't know the right word in English) of company computer network (about 1 to few hundreds computers with a few ...
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Chef vs. Puppet: Which works best on Joyent SmartMachines?
Currently we're planning to take our app to a dynamic infrastructure and we're caught between Chef and Puppet. Each has pros and cons but seeking community answer from anyone who has experience with ...
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A plan to mitigate PDU failures?
A client just experienced a complete failure of an APC AP7911A switched/metered rack power distribution unit. This obviously took all of the connected equipment down with it. The equipment is fine, as ...
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Enterprise class storage costs: $10k/TB. Are we paying too much? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is business-class storage so expensive?
The infrastructure team at my company charges $10,000 per TB for storage costs. They charge this to us (internal) when we ...
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Platforms: Techniques used to apportion CPU, Memory, and networking resources for a C++ telecom infrastructure application [closed]
This is a general question that is pertinent to Software Architecture for a high availability, carrier grade telecom infrastructure box that does say, plenty (==1000s of TCP/IP-based (local) network ...
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On-site campus infrastructure migration to Amazon EC2. Feasible?
After a recent power outage, we've been re-evaluating how we can most effectively provide, maintain, and support our IT resources.
One idea we've been considering is to move our non-critical ...
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Tool for network/infrastructure graph
I search for Linux a graphic tool to document our network/server infrastructure. A script that converts maybe some textual representation into dot (i.e. graphviz) would be enough.
Nodes should be ...
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Best practice to trunk two GB switches?
I already read some similar questions but I still have no clue on how to do it the right way. I have a D-Link DGS-1248T 48 port GB-switch with 4 mini GBIC ports and I want to connect it to another ...
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Design Critique Needed ( VLAN & ESXi )
So this is my new "project" which consists of tearing down our legacy network and re-doing it correctly. As of now it is a mess. Production is a hogpoge of legacy servers that should have been put to ...
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Managing a Testing Infrastructure
We're currently running continuous automated functional tests against the CI builds of our software. This is done on a variety of Windows based machines (around 10-15 boxes or VMs), to identify ...
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My server setup for a heavily used API
I will soon be buying a bunch of servers for an application that I am about to launch but I have concerns about my setup. I appreciate any feedback I get.
I have an application which will make use of ...
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Auditing user behavior in a small organization to prepare IT restructuring
My company will be working on restructuring/rethinking the whole IT infrastructure for a small company (about 25 employees). A part of this is a migration to Google Apps for email, calendar, etc. That ...
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How to restructure this small IT Department?
Through these last 2 years, my brother and I have been in charge of our family company's "IT department". We can't dedicate all of our time to this, because we are in college and we also have some ...
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What is meant when IT Infrastructure people refer to the “Stack”
Can someone please define what exactly is the "Stack". I know its an industry term but its very vague. I am referring to Infrastructure terminology not "Stack" in terms of memory allocation.
