[Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance on the IT road ahead

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> David Froble via Info-vax
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> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> Cc: David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com>
> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance
> on the IT road ahead
> 
> Kerry Main wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> >> Bob Koehler via Info-vax
> >> Sent: 03-Feb-16 1:19 PM
> >> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> >> Cc: Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in
> importance
> >> on the IT road ahead
> >>
> >> In article <cbc93d79-178b-4e09-8f3b-
> >> 7d2e91cb755e at googlegroups.com>, IanD
> <iloveopenvms at gmail.com>
> >> writes:
> >>> Could VSI perhaps one day distribute VMS + Application 'on a stick'
> so
> >> to s=
> >>> peak?
> >>    Particularly usefull on OS where the vendor recommends each
> instance
> >>    only support one application.
> >>
> >>    Not necessarily the right solution for all.
> >>
> >
> > Could be very nice solution for distributing pre-configured OS instances
> > such as hobby and/or dev environments i.e. with long list of open
> source
> > and dev prod's + latest patches installed and ready to go.. would only
> need
> > to tweak the OS instance specific info e.g. tcpip, licenses, etc.
> >
> > Many Cust's create "gold" disks or their customized release specific OS
> > images for much faster rollouts. This is also similar to how large
> VMware
> > shops deploy new images. They do not deploy base images of
> Windows
> > or Linux then do patches / custom info. They simply deploy the latest
> gold
> > OS instance image of that particular environment.
> >
> > Case in point - I spent most of a week downloading, installing /
> customizing
> > dev and open source prod's on a new env .. would have been great to
> simply
> > download a single LD file, then do a backup to my local disk.
> Downloaded OS
> > image could be setup with modparams updates, sysuaf quotas
> updated for
> > specific accounts, latest Java installed etc ..
> >
> > There are always some issues with gold disks, but they do have loads of
> > value in larger shops.
> 
> Uh ....
> 
> Isn't this sort of like
> 
> $ BACKUP /IMAGE /VERIFY <custom system disk save set> <target>
> 
> Ya know, like we were doing 30+ years ago ????

Same thing, only different.

:-)

It's a bit easier to mount/change/dism a container file.

But yes, many of the things talked about today are simply best practices 
and/or slight modifications from 30+ years ago. New names, New Hype, 
same old stuff -

SOA --> NAS (remember DEC Network Application Services?)

Private cloud--> Shared Services --> Adaptive Enterprise --> Converged 
Infrastructure --> IT Utility

Public Cloud --> selective IT Outsourcing --> Timesharing (remember 
CompuServe?

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com