Safari Nzuri – East Africa

Hi all,

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been preparing computer equipment, which I’ll deliver and install at Bishop Okullu College in Kenya.   Currently BOC has a thin client network of computers that all run their MS Windows sessions from a main Windows 2016 Server that is running on a Mac Mini computer.    The Mac mini is getting older, so it’s time to replace it.    In the picture I’m displaying here,  I’m showing two small but powerful PCs.   These are nicely equipped with i9 Intel processors, 64GB of RAM, and 1TB of SSD disk storage.   Underneath the PCs is an ASUSTOR 6 solid state disk array with 6 500GB M.2 NVME storage drives, which added up with RAID 6 redundancy comes out to 2 TB of storage.   What will we use this for, you ask?   To house the Windows Servers (2016 and 2022 versions) that will run the entire network of thin client computers.    If you are confused, no worries.   I’ll be posting about the installation when I am there and will explain simply how the setup works. Suffice it to say, it’s going to improve their systems significantly.   

I am grateful to St. Paul’s Church, Brookfield, CT, for their generosity.   All the equipment and such were purchased from mission budget funds the church provided for the project.    

I’m also looking forward to training the young I.T. staff member, Robert Onyango in this new technology.   He is a fast learner and is always eager to gain more knowledge in computer systems.   

That’s it for now.   I’ll keep posting once I get closer to my departure date of Wednesday, Sept 11.