SysAdmin Persona: Sam
Andrew Fitzsimon
afitzsim at redhat.com
Tue Nov 6 14:35:32 UTC 2012
This is a great persona profile!!!
Thank you.
On 07/11/2012, at 12:13 AM, Justin Clift <jclift at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is the text for the "SysAdmin" Persona (Sam), presented a
> few minutes ago.
>
> Trying to think of how to specify needs/wants, but nothing's
> coming to mind. Any suggestions?
>
> + Justin
>
> **************************************************************
>
> Sysadmin Persona: Sam
>
> Personal background
> *******************
>
> * Sam is a 35 year old male from Hanoi, Vietnam, who migrated
> to east coast US about 10 years ago.
>
> * He is the sole breadwinner in his family, happily married to
> his wife of 8 years, and has a 3 year old child.
>
> * Sam works as the Aeolus SysAdmin for "T-Bone", a large
> monopoly style Telco in his area.
>
> * He previously worked on Enterprise Class Solaris Systems for
> many years, and moved to working with Linux (mostly RHEL), a
> few years ago.
>
> Environment
> ***********
>
> * "T-Bone" has dedicated NAS, SAN and network teams, with a 2
> week+ (min) turn around time for requests.
>
> * Aeolus runs on a single server in this environment, a dual
> cpu (2 x quad core) HP DL380 with 24 GB RAM, and 2TB of
> local RAID 0 SATA storage.
>
> * Aeolus is hooked up to a small vSphere 5.x cluster. vCenter
> is running on a server identical to the Aeolus one, and 4 x
> hosts (also HP DL 380's) with 96GB RAM and 4TB of shared
> NetApp storage (a fast NAS).
>
> * Sam's team also use Aeolus with EC2, for giving their
> partners access to selected builds of their applications,
> for testing and qualification (not prod).
>
> * The Aeolus environment is used by the developers in a part
> of T-Bone's business and government division. About 40
> people.
>
> * The standard development platform the developers write for
> is RHEL 6.x, JBoss (various releases), and Oracle 10g/11g.
>
> * NetBackup is the enterprise backup solution, so Sam wrote
> custom shell scripts to do backups of Aeolus nightly.
>
> They don't back up generated Aeolus images, but do backup
> up everything else (Aeolus state, XML templates, etc).
>
> * Sam has a ToDo list item to investigate RHEV, and has been
> toying around with oVirt on a spare desktop box. Not in
> depth with it yet.
>
> Needs / wants
> *************
>
> * ???
>
> **************************************************************
>
> --
> Aeolus Community Manager
> http://www.aeolusproject.org
>
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