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Re: [SAGE] Servers per SysAdmin

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Subject: Re: [SAGE] Servers per SysAdmin
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: 08 Oct 2001 21:41:58 -0700
In-Reply-To: "Barnette, Steve L"'s message of "Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:00:23 -0700"
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Barnette, Steve L <steve_b3@corp.earthlink.net> writes:

> I am in a staffing discussion on number of SysAdmins needed for our
> servers.  The suits are quoting some Gardner Group article stating one
> SysAdmin per hundred servers.  That sounds high to me, I was wondering
> what all of you think?

I think it depends highly on how homogenous your servers are.  If you only
have one to five servers for each application, a hundred servers is
probably way too high; if the hundred servers are a single compute cluster
composed of completely identical machines, with the appropriate automation
a single sysadmin could easily handle that and more.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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- [SAGE] Servers per SysAdmin
  - From: "Barnette, Steve L" <steve_b3@corp.earthlink.net>

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