In the morning I will be flying up to Toronto for my first business trip out of the country. I will be setting up a new datacenter for the company I work for in a Sungard facility in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto Ontario Canada. Due to Canadian laws, we must keep all our customer’s data in Canada in order to do business in there. So we are putting in an exact replica of our production system but with canadian customer data. I will be putting in 6 physical servers and plenty of networking equipment. 3 are ESX hosts with 4 virtual servers each. This is gonna be interesting to see how virtualizing our system works out. From my experience setting up the servers in our office, I think it is going to work great giving us enhanced performance and flexibility while lowering our equipment costs.
There is one problem with this trip though. We shipped the equipment on the second of July. It cleared customs in the middle of last week, but DHL has no idea where the stuff is now. Hopefully we can find the equipment tomorrow, so that we have time to install before the end of the week. I have another trip planned to our datacenter in Phoenix beginning on Sunday so it is going to be an interesting couple of weeks. Of course my papers and finals for my online classes fall in these two weeks too. But the experience will be good…as long as we can locate the servers.
Nice article. Thanks.
Eugene