Belated update
Goodness. Things have been so busy I've hardly had time to think.
The original plan was that we'd arrive, the servers would be in the rack, with the operating system installed, ready for us to go ahead and install our software. We were told when we arrived on site that the servers were racked up, but they'd not had time to install the OS yet. After some tours and introductions, we offered to help out by installing the operating systems. It was at this point that we were told by someone else that the machines we'd been shown earlier weren't ours. Our machines were still in boxes, the rack cabinet still hadn't been built, and in fact a couple of machines hadn't yet arrived. So, while we waited for that to be completed, we had some meetings to discuss naming conventions, a complete redesign of the hardware/network configuration ,and ip address allocation. Oh, and to top it all, 2 undersea fiber cuts (now reportedly up to five) has meant that network connectivity back to St Louis has been spotty at best.
Monday was spent installing Redhat Enterprise Linux on the 10 machines we had. At least, it was after we'd downloaded it and burned the CDs, because we didn't have those either because we thought that would be done. And for downloading, see the earlier comment about fiber cuts. On the social side, we started to get to know some of the other employees better, and enjoyed Mansaf, a huge hunk of lamb, server over rice with a thin yogurt sauce, for lunch. Two servers were "appropriated" from another project that could manage without them for a little while, and installed in the rack as well, so that helped. Network access from the hotel was actually a little better, and I downloaded some other software that we needed.
More updates later, I'm extraodinarily tired, and I actually plan on getting to bed before midnight tonight...
Sunday
The original plan was that we'd arrive, the servers would be in the rack, with the operating system installed, ready for us to go ahead and install our software. We were told when we arrived on site that the servers were racked up, but they'd not had time to install the OS yet. After some tours and introductions, we offered to help out by installing the operating systems. It was at this point that we were told by someone else that the machines we'd been shown earlier weren't ours. Our machines were still in boxes, the rack cabinet still hadn't been built, and in fact a couple of machines hadn't yet arrived. So, while we waited for that to be completed, we had some meetings to discuss naming conventions, a complete redesign of the hardware/network configuration ,and ip address allocation. Oh, and to top it all, 2 undersea fiber cuts (now reportedly up to five) has meant that network connectivity back to St Louis has been spotty at best.
Monday
Monday was spent installing Redhat Enterprise Linux on the 10 machines we had. At least, it was after we'd downloaded it and burned the CDs, because we didn't have those either because we thought that would be done. And for downloading, see the earlier comment about fiber cuts. On the social side, we started to get to know some of the other employees better, and enjoyed Mansaf, a huge hunk of lamb, server over rice with a thin yogurt sauce, for lunch. Two servers were "appropriated" from another project that could manage without them for a little while, and installed in the rack as well, so that helped. Network access from the hotel was actually a little better, and I downloaded some other software that we needed.
More updates later, I'm extraodinarily tired, and I actually plan on getting to bed before midnight tonight...
posted by Timotab @ 2:49 PM
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