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| Hi, Any one have a cheap source for Wacom4/5 plain wrap etc? No need for fancy packaging which I fiddle opening. Something cheap and in quantity. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green. |
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Hi All, Curious if anyone has used Puppet or SaltStack to configure Windows workstations, for things like environment variables, paths, installations, and symlinks. Did it work? Was there enough Windows support for what you needed to do? Apart from Windows, it would also config Windows/Linux servers. Thanks! -louai |
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| posted by Peter Smith on June 9, 2014, 10:45 a.m. | ||||||
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Ooh, they moved from .io to .com -- Pete Smith Engineer Smoke & Mirrors d: +44 (0)20 3206 6511 m: +44 (0)7738 067455 e: petersmith@smoke-mirrors.com t: +44 (0)20 7468 1000 1-5 Poland St London W1F 8PR From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com [studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com] on behalf of Jathavan Sriram [sriram@harvest-postproduction.com] Sent: 09 June 2014 15:20 To: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: [SSA-Discuss] Docker My fellow sysadmins, check this out! http://www.docker.com/ http://www.wired.com/2014/06/eric-brewer-google-docker/ Cheers Jatha --
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G-RAID alternative? | ||||||
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| The 2TB and 4TB 2-disk G-RAID units seem to be failing more than they used to in the past, and its making me sad over and over again. Has anyone moved away from them in favor of the OWC or another brand? Heres your chance to evangelize. Rob To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
OT - Funny login names | ||||||
| posted by Brian Krusic on June 9, 2014, 2 p.m. | ||||||
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| So I have some funny user names, but the funniest we have are; jpg lto We do first initial + last name. I laugh hysterically when ever these folks come in. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green. |
Reminder: SSA London Event: BBQ with Cumulus
Networks and Sohonet 24th June 2014 | ||||||
| posted by Ben De Luca on June 10, 2014, 9:15 a.m. | ||||||
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Hey, we also have some T-Shirts from cumulus networks available, if you mail me your size at bdeluca@gmail.com I will ensure I have one there that fits you. Also does any one have a preference on the types of beverage available (IE beer)? We have to do cans because of the venue.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Ben De Luca <bdeluca@gmail.com> wrote:
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I'd love to have one of these at home. you can even run a pair of video cards in SLI if that is your thing, and use the other nodes as the 'sandbox' nodes for your at home lab! would make a great VM platform for work too I guess. 8)http://www.dell.com/ca/business/p/poweredge-vrtx/pd |
Strategies on server/equipment shutdown based on
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| posted by Bobby Jain on June 10, 2014, 3:50 p.m. | ||||||
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With summer rolling around (finally here), sever room temperatures are on my mind. We have a variety of servers (supermicro, dell), with different monitoring options (BMC, iDRAC), which give us thermal stats outside of the OS. Right now I have alerts setup, and VPN capability to manually do it.I want the ability to gracefully shutdown the servers if the high temperature alert is tripped on the BMC or iDRAC. From reading through iDrac material, it looks like it is possible to write a script to sense the temp and then send the shutdown command. Is this the best practice? Or are there readily available utilities to help stream line the process? |
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Hi Everyone, I’d like to invite everyone in the Vancouver area, or those visiting to join us on June 17th for the Vancouver Sysadmins meeting. Please RSVP either by sending me an email or through the Studio Sysadmin website. Thanks, Ron Studio SysAdmins Vancouver - June 17, 2014
Doors open at 5:30pm; Meeting starts at 6pm Date: June 17, 2014 Place:685 Great Northern Way Presenter: Ash D’Costa, BSc Chief Technical Officer Mainland Information Systems Ltd. Topic 1) Today’s Innovations in Storage and Backup/Recovery Once upon a time a company called Sun Microsystems stated that the network is the computer and predicted that computers will become peripherals to storage. Sun is now gone, but their uncanny premonition lives on. Ever increasing storage demands has put some of the greatest pressures on computer systems infrastructure. Disk performance expectations are at an all-time high and the demand for storage capacity seems to be insatiable. These pressures have triggered two of new innovations in systems infrastructure: solid state (flash) storage arrays and out-of-band backup/recovery. In my presentation, I will be describing how the latest generation of flash storage systems can satisfy ultra-high storage performance needs while still delivering storage capacity nearly equivalent to today’s traditional spinning-disk storage arrays. As well, I will be discussing a second innovation that addresses the unfortunate side-effect of rapidly increasing storage capacity: how do I back it all up without tanking the backup server(s)? Imagine applying software-defined data center concepts to traditional backup/recovery infrastructure: separate the control plane from the data plane, creating a “backup-server-less” backup/recovery architecture with fewer bottlenecks than the traditional approach. I’m sure you’ll find this to be an informative session, so stop by armed with all your questions! Ash D’Costa - Chief Technology Officer
Ash has over 20 years of IT experience. He began his career with MVS and VM mainframes, moving on to UNIX and Windows systems, and now into the virtual data centre infrastructures of today. As Mainland’s CTO, Ash helps guide the company’s technology direction by staying on top of the latest industry innovations and through regular interaction with Mainland’s customers and business partners. Ash holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from the University of Alberta and lives in Calgary. Presenters:
Steven Taylor President of igniteCSG John Legare Senior Collaboration Engineering Topic 2) The Adoption of Collaboration An update on some of the recent changes with Collaboration and how organizations are using these tools to bring about cultural change within their teams. Speakers Steven Taylor, President of igniteCSG with over 17 years in the communication industry with a heavy focus on unified communication & video conferencing John Legare, Senior Collaboration Engineering with over 25 years in the communication industry specializing on new technologies to enhance communications
Parking is free OF COURSE BEER AND FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED J
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Potential job opening - Jr Sys Admin | ||||||
| posted by Jeremy Smith on June 11, 2014, 6:50 a.m. | ||||||
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Hello everyone (sorry if this isn’t in the right place to post this),
As we are expanding we are looking to hiring a Jr Sys Admin. If you or anyone you know is looking for some sys admin work in London please email me off list!
Please see the job spec below.
Desirable Good communication skills – written and verbal Good organisational skills – must keep inventory of Wacoms/monitors etc etc Interest in VFX including rendering, 3D animation packages etc Provide Desktop Support to artists Workstation/render-nodes maintenance and configuration Familiar in a Windows/Linux Environment Good understanding of networking/switches Familiar with Active Directory/windbind Be responsible for letting us new accounts when freelancers start, as well as removing accounts when they finish
Nice to have Degree in IT or equivalent experience Familiar with render farms and how they work Python/Power Shell would be great Virtualization (Vmware/Hyper-V) Good knowledge of encoding when using video codecs. Familiar with licence servers (Autodesk/Foundry etc)
Of course some training would be provided, but would be great if this person would be a quick learner!
Can speak about salary later on.
Thanks and speak to you all later!
Jeremy Smith
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Hi all, I have recently assembled a storage server to act as a nearline solution to move jobs to, so they can be archived to tapes, and ease any strain on our "live" servers.
Super Micro Super Chassis - CSE-846E26-R1200B Supermicro - MBD-X9DR3-LN4F+-O 2 x Xeon E5-2620 6 core 2.0ghz 64gb DDR3 Ram 1600 Atto NT12 10gbe Areca Arc1882-16 Raid card 21 x Sata 6.0, 4tb Hitachi Drives Lsi 9207 8i - with 2 x 128 Intel SSD drives attached in Raid 1 - With CENTOS 6.5 Installed.
I created the raid set as raid5 with 1 hot spare giving me 76tb via the areca bios When it came to the partitioning/creating the filesystem I decided to dabble a little into the ZFS filesystem I created a pool and configured it with appropriate permissions,created a share point called nearline and then shared it onto our network via nfs. After a few glitches (mainly firewall related, and getting the share to automount on boot) the share is accessable from all the other servers on my network. I ran two tests to see performance and have a few questions from a mac i have on the 10gb network i ran the AJA system test to look at disk IO RW - although it seems to be giving aderquate IO, it doesnt seem fast enough to me Video Frame Size - 1920x1080 10bit - file size 1gb - 310Write 300 read
My question here is i created the ZFS pool on the already built RAID 5,volume set - 8kb stripe,block 512 cache attribute write back using the Areca BIOS, I used a low stripe size 8kb, thinking that alot of the data moving to this server is going to be maya files,jpegs/tiffs etc, and that a lower stripe size would increase performance, is there a set size i should be using?should HDD read ahead cache be enabled? I noticed on forums alot of people seemed to just created a RAID 0, and then when creating the ZFS pool they use the raidz then, will this increase performance? I would rather trash the whole raid now while iits in testing phase and configure it correctly
Secondly related to 10gb - All systems have Atto NT11/12 10gb cards and the the same sysctrl tuning added,all enabled with mtu=9000, If I run Iperf between 2 different servers to and from the new zfs server it seems to be giving me good speeds to the new server however from the new to the others its a little slow. [root@fas ~]# iperf -c 199.95.137.45 ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 199.95.137.12 port 35556 connected with 199.95.137.45 port 5001 CHUNK SERVER (ZFS) to C3X & FAS SERVER 4] local 199.95.137.12 port 5001 connected with 199.95.137.45 port 48837 4] local 199.95.137.12 port 5001 connected with 199.95.137.45 port 48837 C3X SERVER to FAS SERVER ^C[root@c3xlive ~]iperf -c 199.95.137.12
FAS SERVER to C3X SERVER Client connecting to 199.95.137.178, TCP port 5001
I am using this tuning in each sysctrl.conf file
#TUNING Any help in fine tuning the 10gb card and also fine tuning for NFS would be helpful I had read that increasing txqueuelen 10000 is helpful for theNFS connections?
Thanks
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OT - Any one want a Breville Juicer? | ||||||
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| Model BJE200XL. Its a decent machine, however I no longer juice. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green. |
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| Aircon always fails....
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| On 2014-06-11 16:14, greg whynott wrote: > had a similar situation. I had a 2 inch hole punched in the UPS by an arc. the UPS installer was missing an isolation mat in the thing. it's funny, since then, we've always had 2 different groups inspect anything electrical... i wish i still had that picture... To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
Nvidia Geforce GTX Titan Black 6GB | ||||||
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HVAC in Toronto? | ||||||
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Hey guys, One of our HVAC units has shut down, and despite all my various incantations, it's not coming back online. :) Would anyone know of some good HVAC guys in Toronto? Thanks in advance! :) ______________________________________________________________________________ David Fix|Senior Systems Administrator|tel:416.691.0100ext.222|intelligentcreatures.com This e-mail, and any attachment, is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, copying, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not the views of Intelligent Creatures. |
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JOB: IT consultant for Windows, AfterEffects, Deadline | ||||||
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| Hi, A small shop over in Santa Monica, CA is looking for an IT consultant. They are a Windows shop currently consisting of about a dozen workstations running Win7, a small farm (single digits qty of machines) that mostly does architectural visualizations but has embarked on doing the vfx for an indie film (cg backgrounds and AE blue screen vfx). Needless to say the requirements of the vfx are very different from doing architectural visualizations and are highlighting the limitations of their environment. They're looking for someone who can help them fine tune their network infrastructure w.r.t. getting After Effects comps out more efficiently, deploy a queueing system (Deadline, maybe?), and in general be available to trouble-shoot systems issues. If you are anyone you know might fit the bill, please let me know. Thanks, -- Antoine To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
