[OpenAFS] Ammunition

[Chris (Ducky) Chapin]

Not that I would consider this a truely large install, but at one point
Qualcomm had around 6000 unix hosts (90% solaris) using AFS (6 or so file
servers 4 db servers).

Through spin-offs and the like, Qualcomm's down to about half that (60%
solaris, with linux climbing fast), using 7 file servers in 3 campuses and
two cells.

Qualcomm still uses NFS (appliances) for homedirs and work data, but AFS
has proven far superior for static internal data, application
distribution, web site staging, and configuration management/distribution.

-Chris

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 Christopher 'Ducky' Chapin
 Unix Systems Administrator - Qualcomm, Inc.
 IT Host Services


On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Tino Schwarze wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:13:09PM +0100, Jason Binns wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to build a business case to oust M$ from our file and print
> > environment, and while I can demonstrate technologically why AFS is better,
> > the management sheep are going "Who else is using this?"  "If it was better
> > than M$ everyone would be using it" and other foo.
>
> Look at:
> http://www.openafs.org/pages/success.html
> (But it's mostly educational sites.)
>
> And there was a quite huge corp mentioned on the list some time ago
> using AFS for their worldwide file services...  Unfortunately, I cannot
> remember who it was...
>
> Bye, Tino.
>
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