| Folks,
there has still been radio silence from Oscar Herrera @ Credativ. I have left messages on his phone, but no reply yet. Not sure what is going on. Purely from a Test Infra perspective, 1-3 as outlined are OK.
Any views on how to proceed? My view would be to proceed for now and get a costing.
Regards Lars Begin forwarded message:
Subject: RE: Possible work for the Xen Project
Date: 29 September 2015 14:33:23 BST
Lars et al, I think the 3 areas we can help in are: 1. Supporting the network, firewalls, connectivity, add/change/moves. Keeping the datacenter running. 2. We can build white box servers to spec. 3. We can source a large array of gear from many distributors. Where our company will fall short on is the support of the server administration of Linux systems. We have too short of a bench to confidently say we’ll be able to provide the service you need so we are not comfortable moving forward on that. Even though you guys stick with system packages and pretty standard configurations, the minute something strays from the “easily google-able issue” we may have a problem supporting it well. We are fantastic with Windows systems so if you ever have work that needs to be done in that area or in networking/firewall technologies please keep us in mind. We would love to do work with the Linux Foundation and the Xen project in our other areas of expertise. Matthew Fusaro Project Manager TBNG Consulting Phone: (203) 933-8264 x112 IT solutions when IT matters CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE TO RECIPIENT This email (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged (including, without limitation, attorney-client privilege). If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender, and delete it immediately. From: Matt Fusaro
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 11:31 AM
To: Lars Kurth
Cc: Ian Jackson; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; Lou Ardolino; Jeffrey Grande
Subject: Re: Possible work for the Xen Project Lars, Sorry for the lack of reply I was unexpectedly out most of the week. Can we do a call Wednesday of next week? What times work for you? We are in our office 9-5pm edt. Matt, any news from your Ops manager? Thanks for reaching back out! I will get my Ops Manager involved here to make sure we are good on capacity for something like this and we’ll schedule a call to go over expectations so we are all on the same page. Phone: (203) 933-8264 x112 IT solutions when IT matters CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE TO RECIPIENT This email (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged (including, without limitation, attorney-client privilege). If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender, and delete it immediately. From: Lars Kurth [mailto:lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2015 5:19 AM
To: Matt Fusaro
Cc: Ian Jackson; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Subject: Possible work for the Xen Project I'm emailing on behalf of the Xen Project, the upstream Free Software project which maintains the Xen hypervisor. We are in need of some sysadmin support near Marlborough, MA. You came recommended and are on our shortlist of three. This would be a long term relationship between you and the Xen Project (formally, the Linux Foundation). It would be on a commercial basis, probably on an hourly rate. We expect to have an average of about one day a week's work, but in lumps. Currently we have a fair amount of technical debt, so we expect that our new contract sysadmins will be putting more effort in We have two main areas where we need help: * Our `osstest' CI system runs in the EarthLink datacentre in Marlborough, MA. It currently consists of one cabinet containing - internal and external switches - two identical main servers hosting a number of VMS - 24 x86 test boxes in pairs of identical machines - one custom 4U ARM rackmount box - two serial concentrators connected to the main servers. - Debian (currently wheezy) and Xen (Debian wheey's) - osstest (our own test control software) - PostgreSQL, Apache, ISC DHCPD, BIND (all Debian's) - Some use of ansible, although most setup is not automated - Reviewing software and hardware arrangements; proposing and implementing plans to remedy suboptimal arrangements left by our previous contractors - Making appropriate arrangements for backups (!) - Routine software and hardware maintenance - Helping specify and procure, and setting up and installing about another cabinet's worth of hardware to be purchased with our 2015 hardware budget of ~$80K - Liasing with our hardware supplier with respect to outstanding hardware faults * The Xen Project has a number of online services which support the Xen community. These are all running on public cloud systems, currently Rackspace. They include: - "xenbits" (git hosting, shell accounts, etc.) These are mostly running Debian, mostly wheezy. Tasks include: - Routine software maintenance - Updating to new versions of Debian - Some user account management etc. - Rationalising and/or automatic administration Please let us know if you feel you could do this work and are interested. We would want to have a business conversation about rates We would also like to have an in-depth interview-style, technical phone conversation, lasting perhaps half an hour. So please let us know if you would be willing to make someone available for that. Please reply by be email to the CC list above. It was great to see you this week! We have a lot of exciting things happening at Zentific this quarter that I am hoping it will mean great things for the Xen project as well while we get our product(s) ready and move into full time development. The company I have worked at for the past 7 years, TBNG Consulting, does exactly what you were looking for in regards to deploying infrastructure and we are right in Milford CT. We do work in Worcester and in Cambridge MA so Marlborough is an easy one. We also resell a ton of different equipment so if you ever need assistance there I can make sure they help you out. If you need more info or references etc. just let me know. If you already have the need filled, that's fine too :) just making sure you have options.
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