Towards the end of the day today our new tech director came into The Fearless Leader's office and asked if we wanted to drop RAM upgrades into our new servers. I'm working my way into über-geekdom so of course I wanted to play with the nice new shiny Xserves he bought. We've got a total of five new servers - one to run LDAP, one to run an intranet, one to replace our webserver, one which is going to be attached to an Xserve RAID (with about 5.25TB of storage!) and become our new mail suite, and one... ya know... I can't remember what the last one is doing. But that's not important right now.
On to the RAM. We dropped 8GB of RAM into the LDAP server and brought the intranet server up to a total of 10GB. That's a helluva lot of RAM and the servers themselves are beefed up but I'm not surprised. I've noticed one thing about our new tech director - he doesn't screw around when it comes to hardware, he gets the most bang for his buck. Unlike our previous person in charge who damn near killed us with her doctrine of 'Quantity Over Quality', which we're still suffering from in the form of crappy eMacs.
So I got to see the inside of an Xserve for the first time today and I gotta tell ya, it is impressive to say the least. I'll admit it - I drooled a little. We're probably going to start getting these things configured and deployed in a couple of weeks. My school year is off to a damn good start.
