Shared Nothing Hyper-V Infrastructure
The “standard” way to build a VM farm involves centralised storage, usually some form of SAN, with a number of compute nodes. The resultĀ is an infrastructure that looks something like this: I’ll admit...
Wearing the many technical hats of radio.
The “standard” way to build a VM farm involves centralised storage, usually some form of SAN, with a number of compute nodes. The resultĀ is an infrastructure that looks something like this: I’ll admit...
Where I work is very much a Windows shop. Well, there’s also almost 2000 OS X laptops to worry about. However, most of the infrastructure we operate is built around Windows. Active Directory provides...
For what feels like a really long time now, configuration management systems such as Puppet have been the norm. Even in a small charity I do work for I’ve had it deployed for managing...
At one radio station I volunteer for, we’re mainly a Linux shop. Rivendell provide playout, Icecast streams the audio and it’s Debian on the desktop. With the small number of systems involved, keeping them...
Virtualisation has really taken over the world of IT. In the day job, I don’t buy new servers, I ask for a VM to be provisioned on an existing VM cluster. Even in the...
If you’ve got a broadcast critical web stream to worry about, prioritisingĀ it ahead of all other web traffic is an important job. I’ve seen a number of approaches to it over the years. The...
It’s one of those questions you often don’t think about until you start running into problems. You’re hitting the bandwidth limit of some link but not sure what to blame it on. The pretty...
You’ve got your brand new broadcast IP codec. A pair of them really, one inside the network and the other outside. How do you make them talk to each other? Admittedly, it could be...
It’s not often you talk about systems from the DOS era, especially now that we’re in 2015. However, the DCS playout system used to be shipped with a serial controlled audio router. The router...
In the past, if you wanted broadcast quality audio on an OB, you had to book and ISDN months in advance at a fairly non-negligible cost. Even more costly was broadcasts really remote locations...
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