[Info-vax] OpenVMS servers and clusters as a cloud service

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf Of
> Johnny Billquist via Info-vax
> Sent: January 1, 2018 11:56 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] OpenVMS servers and clusters as a cloud service
> 
> On 2017-12-31 16:44, Kerry Main wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf Of
> >> Johnny Billquist via Info-vax
> >> Sent: December 31, 2017 10:09 AM
> >> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> >> Cc: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
> >> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] OpenVMS servers and clusters as a cloud
> service
> >>
> >> On 2017-12-31 15:46, Kerry Main wrote:
> >>>> I wrote that Google (according to gossip) have one sysadm per
> 28000
> >>>> servers.
> >>>>

[Snip..]
> 
> It's even hard to point out who is a sysadm at Google, that type of role
> hardly exists. People are working on development, or keeping services
> up
> and running. Managing machines is not something almost anyone needs
> to
> care about.
> 
> Management of IP addresses, and all infrastructure around that is also
> pretty much all automated.
> You cannot manage hundred of thousands of machines without pretty
> much
> fully automating all of it.
> 
>    Johnny

Designing, implementing, upgrading and supporting IT automation is great and certainly the way to go. Having stated this, IT Automation is a huge, huge undertaking in itself. These environments are constantly evolving with new version upgrades, patches, tweaks, internal firewall zone rule changes and optimizations. IT never stands still.

My point is that the total number of IT staff involved in these eng / deployment / support of servers/storage/network activities is much, much larger than just what is typically referred to as Server SysAdmins ratios. 

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com