[nycbug-talk] Lab environment

[Pete Wright]

Mikel King wrote:

> Isaac Levy wrote:
>
>> On May 19, 2004, at 10:54 PM, G.Rosamond wrote:
>>
>>>> So I'll keep volunteered if some folks get my back on this stuff... 
>>>> <g>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think the parameters need to be elaborated on the list, and then 
>>> we can worry about the setups.
>>
>>
>>
>> Agreed-
>>
>> To re-state some of my generalizing in my response to Sunny, this is 
>> the kind of thing I'm looking for out of this:
>>
>> - Sanity of setup and administration across various architectures
>> - Network Verbosity vs. ease of use
>> - Implimentation Sanity for different architectures, (i.e. perhaps, 
>> for example, the native SMB implementation on a given platform sucks, 
>> while it's awesome on a different platform)
>> - General End User Experience (i.e. start a server runing one of the 
>> services, and test several laptops using the service with different 
>> OS's)
>> - General NAS Use Experiences
>> - Resilience to Network Failure (ohh- nfs can make FUN for client 
>> machines on various platforms :)
>>
>>
>> That's my blabbing- somebody want to start another thread with a 
>> formal list of tests?
>>
>> Rocket-
>> .ike
>>
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>
> Have we found a suitable location yet?  I am working on a client of 
> mine who recently upgraded to allow me to take several of their old 
> machines in which case we could possibly use them for this lab 
> experiment. If not however; I happen to know that we are in the 
> process of upgrading our NOC and have several Proliant 800's that 
> might prove useful as well, but this all depends on timing.  Of course 
> that leads to the second possibility, our NOC while neither spacious 
> nor...uh what's the correct word I'm looking for here, um well let's 
> just say that here at OCS looks ain't everything. We could maybe shoe 
> horn a group of engineers to deploy these boxes. I have enough rack 
> space and bw to get this going.
>
> m!

wow, your NOC sounds pretty promising, i was going to offer my some 
space at my office, but it's quite crowded/dirty here.  i'd definatly be 
up from hacking on any equipment we do get...installs etc..

-pete


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