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The company supplied on-premise server 'appliances' for a particular market niche. To create a new deployment, find an existing server (usually at an existing
by arethuza 6y ago
The company supplied on-premise server 'appliances' for a particular market niche.
To create a new deployment, find an existing server (usually at an existing customer), take out a mirrored RAID disk and replace it with a blank one. When mirroring complete put old one back in and take your new copy and use it in a new server for the new customer....
Repeatable build process, repeatable deployment process - who needs that when you have the power of RAID-1! <sob>
Fortunately, it was a long time ago....
- ufmace 6y agoWow. That's both amazing that somebody thought to do that and it worked, and terrifying that it became the official solution for production deployments.