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Comments: 1 +-   Best Practise for Infrastructure Upgrade? on Friday November 20, @06:12AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20, @06:12AM
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An anonymous reader writes "I was put in charge of an aging IT infrastructure that needs a serious overhaul. Current services include the usual suspects, e.g. www, ftp, email, dns, firewall, dhcp — and some more. In most cases, each service runs on its own hardware, some of them for the last seven years straight. The machines still can (mostly) handle the load that ~150 people in multiple offices put on them, but there's hardly any fallback if any of the services dies or an office is disconnected. Now, as the hardware must be replaced, I'd like to buff things up a bit: distributed instances of services (at least one instance per office) and a fallback/load-balancing scheme (either to an instance in another office or a duplicated one within the same). Services running on virtualized servers hosted by a single reasonably sized machine per office (plus one for testing and a spare) seem to recommend themselves. What's you experience with virtualization of services and implementing fallback/load-balancing schemes? What's Best Practise for an update like this? I'm interested in your success stories, anecdotes but also pointers and (book) references. Thanks!"
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Comments: 4 +-   Windows 7 seems to hate real LANs on Wednesday November 18, @01:39PM jakie

Submitted by jakie on Wednesday November 18, @01:39PM
jakie writes "Windows 7 really tries to make things better for the average user — as long as he or she does not try to set up a static-IP LAN without default gateway and DNS. This leads to Windows crippling this network's connectivity by categorizing it as "Unidentified" and it's location as "Public", which it does not even let you change. This — in my eyes — is a very poor design decision and has already caused much grief in the Windows community. Microsoft also does not seem to acknowledge the problem. Does any persistent solution exist for this problem?"
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