From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QeXtu-0008NC-7o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:36:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B31F21C0A2; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 19:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B16721C0A2 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 19:35:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so94280ewy.40 for ; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:35:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2XtjfdJQbwnRpj3V8sINbUiST8zyuGda2wbxj/lr5no=; b=tMmYnNzIV1I5lNVeWI3z7ZOcgOnR0QZKqtOjW5iVmaT70+WzF/1mIQXRL+5KI0Vb5X uRFGjW/SockqLslza+l1ieLyJs1MOj4IDDKAPMtTTeUc44ZoxOk9TpskZITwqnjK1cZi fdkirvHG8+Cu/QezwF4mWcZAYh0tc1p/gB6yc= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.15.209 with SMTP id f57mr2514085eef.118.1309980903362; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.97.68 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:35:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110704203953.GB14654@vidovic> References: <20110704203953.GB14654@vidovic> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:35:03 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f4989e5c5068dcd9212c5152ed0d58ca >> After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to >> stick with Gentoo routers. =A0This increases the number of Gentoo >> systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. =A0What >> can be done to make the management of multiple Gentoo systems easier? >> I think identical hardware in each system would help a lot but I'm not >> sure that's practical. =A0I need to put together a bunch of new >> workstations and I'm thinking some sort of server/client arrangement >> with the only Gentoo install being on the server could be appropriate. > > I maintain multiple Gentoo we mostly use as KVM hosts systems (and > coming embedded routers). As KVM hosts, some of them are very sensible. > Due to the contracts to our customers, I have to do with various update > strategies on top of various hardware. Thanks to everyone for some very juicy tidbits. I'm rearranging my thinking on all of this. I think the key for me may be to combine systems with separate functions in the same physical location into a single system. Does the KVM thing work well? Running a bunch of workstations as nothing more than wireless KVM setups on the same system? I should be able to cut my Gentoo systems down to just a few. Basically one at each physical location. - Grant