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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? They won't need so many sys admins anymore Post 302956921 by sparcguy on Monday 5th of October 2015 09:51:12 AM
Old 10-05-2015
I've already gone back to work in HP 3 times previously before already once contract expired I left then later rejoined then resigned and rejoined again.

But in HP once you get laid off it means that position is considered redundant and can no longer be filled by anybody.

Also furthermore this time they have relocated the support overseas to low cost centers.

I think the industry is changing even shrinking with the advent of cloud computing, in time systems are going to get more efficient and cheaper and that will put pressure on operating costs, budgets, salaries they don't need so many sys admins or engineers to run around in-country anymore some places I hear they just have a pool of less than 10 people overseas datacenter can manage several thousand virtual servers on cloud.


Sure I think there are many sys admin jobs around still if I wanted to continue or maybe I should bite the bullet now and break out to try something else.


The only jobs in IT today I see that will be hard to farmed out are:

local desktop support - low pay
it security
audit and compliance
 

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XCP-XAPI(1)							   User Commands						       XCP-XAPI(1)

NAME
xcp-xapi - XCP's XenAPI server DESCRIPTION
The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is an open source enterprise-ready server virtualization and cloud computing platform, with support for a range of guest operating systems, Linux network and storage support. XCP addresses the needs of cloud providers, hosting services and data centers by combining the isolation and multitenancy capabilities of the Xen hypervisor with enhanced security, storage and network virtualization technologies to offer a rich set of virtual infrastructure cloud services. The platform also address user requirements for security, availability, performance and isolation across both private and public clouds. XCP consolidates server workloads, enables savings in power, cooling, and management costs and thus contributing to environmentally sus- tainable computing, an increased ability to adapt to ever-changing IT environments, an optimized use of existing hardware, and an improved level of IT reliability. This is the XenAPI server, which provides the control plane for XCP hosts and resource pools. To manage the XenAPI server, you should use either the XML-RPC based API, the xe command line tool, or a graphical user interface such as OpenXenManager. SYNOPSIS
-daemon run as a daemon in the background -config set config file to use -logconfig set log config file to use -writereadyfile touch specified file when xapi is ready to accept requests -writeinitcomplete touch specified file when xapi init process is complete -nowatchdog turn watchdog off, avoiding initial fork -setdom0mem (ignored) -dom0memgradient (ignored) -dom0memintercept (ignored) -onsystemboot indicates that this server start is the first since the host rebooted -noevents turn event thread off for debugging -leaves crashed guests undestroyed -dummydata populate with dummy data for demo/debugging purposes -version show version of the binary -help Display this list of options --help Display this list of options SEE ALSO
The full documentation for xcp-xapi is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and xcp-xapi programs are properly installed at your site, the command info xcp-xapi should give you access to the complete manual. xcp-xapi version 1.3 December 2011 XCP-XAPI(1)
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