Le Lun 28 mai 2007 23:32, Axel Thimm a écrit :
And how did that single admin get 1000 systems that are obviously similar enough to be managed by a single person? Maybe because the budget allowed to buy a rather homegeneous pile of hardware?
Planning. You only buy systems from the same shortlist several years on a row because you know the maintenance burden associated with new configs overweights their short-term advantages (that also gives you volumes to negociate prices with hardware vendors).