Message-Id: <199707081527.IAA05073@mailhost2.cac.washington.edu> From: "James W DeRoest" <deroest@cac.washington.edu> To: "AST Webpage" <astweb@u.washington.edu> Subject: Minutes NT multimedia server mtg (UWTV) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 08:27:34 -0700
---- Date: Tuesday, July 08, 1997 8:14 AM Subject: Minutes NT multimedia server mtg
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>Six dual 200MHz Pentium Pro servers are here and ready to be installed.
>Each system is equiped with four 9GB FW SCSI disks for multimedia data,
>one 2.2GB system disk, one 10/100 Ethernet and 256MB memory. Letcher
>and Justin will setup one of the systems and verify that the order is
>complete.
>
>The followin tasks were identified for installing the servers:
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> Three servers will be deployed at each of the 4545 and
> 3737 locations. Pete will contact Joe and Ron Aley about
> getting rack space, power and network installed.
>
> Monitor/Keyboard switches and cables will be required to
> connect the cluster to a single monitor/keyboard for admin.
> Also some type of remote access software will be required
> for remote admin functions. Pete is looking into
>this. Brad
>has suggested using PCAnywhere for remote access.
>
> Each system is already licensed for NT 4.0. In addition to
> the OS, multimedia server licenses will be required for each
> of the following:
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> RealServer (RealAudio/RealVideo) 2 licenses
> VXtreme 2 licenses
> MS NetShow 2 licenses
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> Two systems will be used for each of the server types and
> setup for round robin DNS. One server of each type will
> be located at the 3737 and 4545 locations. Jim will work
> with Marian on obtaining the licenses.
>
>We will have to begin working on procedures for working NT into our
>support procedure. A number of analysts in AST are taking the NT
>admin classes offered by CSE and USENIX. Jim will setup some meetings
>to discuss clustered NT support.
>
>A meeting with UWTV is in the works to discuss the scope of the project
>and identify additional tasks. Eric Ryan is working on scheduling this
>meeting.
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>Jim
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