Questions tagged [infrastructure]
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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 version-specific problems.
The pain starts when we…
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IT Considerations for a company name change
Nothing is "for sure" yet but there is a good chance my company will be changing it's name in the future.
Our IT requirements are relatively modest - Exchange server, IIS, MSSQL, etc.
My question is, what kind of considerations need to be made…
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IT merger - self-sufficient site with domain controller VS thin clients outpost with access to terminal server
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A larger company acquires a smaller one. IT infrastructure has to be merged. There are no immediate plans to change the current size or role of the smaller company - the offices and production remain.
It has a Win 2003 SBS domain server,…
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Creating a new Infrastructure for my company using Windows Server and FreeNas
I was hired to create software but now also stuck with governing all of the IT work. The company uses a Windows 10 Home machine as a file server for 13 users. I need to plan for up to 50 employees.
My requirements are to create a domain, host SQL…
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Cost saving measures from an IT perspective
We're looking at cutting costs in all departments, which of course, includes IT. There wasn't a whole lot of ideas other than auto-shutdown of all workstations at x-time and having low consumption power supplies.
I'm just wondering, are there any…
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How can I keep a third-party cloud provider accountable for guest VM performance?
I support an ERP system for a manufacturer. We're experiencing intermittent application performance issues on our database, hosted on VMware by a third-party cloud provider. (They're a smaller provider... not Google, Microsoft, Amazon, or the like.)…
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Can unjacketed cable handle gigabit speeds?
Looking at taking over management of an old network that was done in 2004. Surprisingly, for the time, it is category 6 cable. About 200 ports in each of 5 IDFs, all running PoE.
But I'm worried the cross-connects are unusable for a modern network.…
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Security concerns w/ physical vs virtual network gateways
I am in the process of setting up a private network that uses a gateway system for access to certain services on systems behind the network, e.g. ssh, ftp. I have some experience using virtualized infrastructure but want to verify that I am using…
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Configuration changes in immutable infrastructure
How are people who are using immutable infrastructure handling configuration changes between their different environments? I can't workout a nice way to create one AMI per role and use it in all environments.
What I mean is how do I build a single…
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using pgpool doesn't see a list of variables into group_var directory
I am using Ansible + Vagrant to create my infrastructure or make a little simulation of I wish. It installing postgres and creating a ssh directory to store the differents keys for each host.
It is my project structure:
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Wireless network infrastructure for an office with 40 employees
In my company we're facing connectivity problems due to our not very professional network infrastructure. We're growing now, and we expect to be 40 people at the office by the end of the year.
I'm considering to set up a wired network with a…
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Complete infrastructure capacity planning exercise
Despite my colleague and myself being application developers by nature, our current contract engagement has placed us into the infrastructure operations branch of our customer. While we are still largely responsible for the framework and…
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Looking for recommendations on how to evaluate replacement of on-premise server with new server or go to cloud
My business has about 15 people in a single location. We've lived forever off a local Windows Server for file sharing (about 800 GB) and access to our accounting system, which is also file system based (meaning it isn't client-server, rather you…
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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, etc.
I am trying to develop a strategy/disaster…
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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 fail independently of other components" - e.g. an…
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