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VMWare Linux Server Administration
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Date Posted:September 21, 2007
Planned Start Date:September 19, 2007
Type:Hourly
Main Category:Web Development
Sub Category:Web Design
Estimated Workload:As needed - Less than 10 hrs/week
Estimated Duration: 
Last Buyer Activity:September 28, 2007
Candidates: 1 - average $19.99/hr
Interviews: none
 
In Progress
Start Date:September 21, 2007
Hourly Rate:$19.99
Last Date Worked:September 27, 2007
Hired Provider: Sasha P.
Hours Worked:7
Offline Hours:0%
Bonuses: none
Refunds: none
Completed
End Date:September 21, 2007
Feedback to Provider: 2.80
Feedback to Buyer: none
 
Buyer Facts
Member Since:August 20, 2007
Country:United States (GMT-08)
City:San Francisco
Jobs Posted:14
Jobs Filled:9
Jobs Not Yet Filled:1
Current Team size:0
Hours billed, last 30 days:0
Total oDesk Hours:209.50
Feedback Score: 5.00 (2)
 
 

Feedback from Buyer:

  2.8
Cooperation:   4.0

Sasha was very cooperative, just not very available. After a week of only working an hour or so per day I ended the assignment.

Feedback from Provider:

No feedback given.

Ongoing server administration required for VMWare servers running Fedora Core 7 (Host), Cent OS 5 (guest) and Windows XP Professional (guest).

You will be responsible for maintaining and upgrading software installations including remote management of guest operating systems and deploying VMs to new hardware.

Requirements:
  • At least 3 years experience as system administrator for Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS.
  • Experience managing and optimizing MySQL databases
  • Experience creating, installing, and deploying VMWare guest operating systems.
  • Experience maintaining LAMP software systems
 
All candidates must answer the following questions in order to receive a request for interview:

1) Describe the procedure for efficiently backing up a MySQL database with a script that runs as a cron job.

2) How do you set up load balancing for web servers and tomcat servlets using stateful http connections (each client connects to the same server for the life of the session)?

3) Write a procedure for mounting a remote file system using nfs.

Buyer's Assignment History
Provider From/To Job Title Billed Feedback
74874 01/2008 - 07/2008 VMWare Linux Server Administration $1,420
27791 01/2008 - 01/2008 VMWare Linux Server Administration $30
1217 11/2007 - 01/2008 C# Digital I/O Control Software $1,804
31614 09/2007 - 09/2007 VMWare Linux Server Administration $137

Candidate List
Title Name Initiated By Date
Unix/Windows/Firewalls/LAMP administrator Sasha Polonsky Provider September 19, 2007