[Infrastructures] A few questions

[Sean Kelly]

Seeing as the messages lately seem to be discussing what various
technologies and methods we are all using, I'd like to throw these out
there.

What types of distributed filesystems, if any, are people using? I've been
poking at OpenAFS, GFS, or just old fashioned file replication for our
solution. OpenAFS looks rather nice, but complicated and very difficult for
some operating systems such as FreeBSD.

Is anybody out there making heavy use of VMWare? It is being suggested to
us that we examine the usage of VMWare ESX as a means of virtualizing all
of our servers, including Oracle. I was curious if anybody out there has
experience in this area and can give some feedback on this.

And finally, has anybody found the provisioning tools provided by the Red
Hat Network website to be useful at all? To me, they seems somewhat decent
but useless when you enter an environment with anything beyond RHEL
systems.

Thanks for your feedback!

-- 
Sean M. Kelly
UNIX Systems Architect
Division of Information Technology
Creighton University
(402) 280-2264