SA's best X'Mas present
.. is a new server of course :)
Though I'm not much of a full-fledged SA, and just have to do it because nobody else in the company where I work at, can.. Still, there was a very warm and fuzzy feeling when I was unpacking our new Dell PowerEdge 1900 servers (well, only one of them because I'll do setup next month).
These actually are the first "real" servers which I'll be setting up and administering myself (there were lots of built-it-yourself servers before.. I wonder how they match against the "real" ones)
I'll be setting up separate application and database servers.. The specs are as follows:
Application: Intel Xeon Quad 2.33MHz, 8Gb RAM, RAID10 (6×250Gb), DRAC5 remote access card, Intel's Dual 1Gb Ethernet, RedHat 4.5
Database: Intel Xeon Quad 1.86MHz, 4Gb RAM, RAID10 (6×250Gb), DRAC5, Intel Dual 1Gbit Ethernet, RedHat 4.5
Well we don't yet even have a server room, closet, or anything.. Lots of things to setup, even more stuff to learn.