Modern data centers with large number of Linux servers and heavy use of virtualization often don’t have the tools they need to handle system version control and modeling. “Twenty years ago, most companies had tens of servers to manage,” said Erik Troan, founder and chief technology officer of rPath. “When Intel took over the data center, that grew to hundreds or maybe thousands. With virtualization increasing the number of logical systems, organizations with tens of thousands of individual systems are quite common.”
Umm... has no one ever heard of Puppet and Cfengine? Using one or both of these would probably fix all the issues these people are complaining about. I can't imagine them not knowing about them, so I ask: Why weren't they good enough?
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Version Vexations: Keeping Big Linux Operations on the Same Page
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 4, 2011 05:00 AMModern data centers with large number of Linux servers and heavy use of virtualization often don’t have the tools they need to handle system version control and modeling. “Twenty years ago, most companies had tens of servers to manage,” said Erik Troan, founder and chief technology officer of rPath. “When Intel took over the data center, that grew to hundreds or maybe thousands. With virtualization increasing the number of logical systems, organizations with tens of thousands of individual systems are quite common.”