[Systems] Status of ASLO at RIT

[Stephen Jacobs]

hope to meet with folks On this today

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On Feb 28, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>  
wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 20:49 -0600, David Farning wrote:
>> Can can you fill in the specification of the three aslo servers for
>> Steven? I think you know all of the design requirements.  Every thing
>> is pretty standard.  The service itself will only need one public IP
>> which 'floats' between squid primary and squid secondary. Rather than
>> waste IP could we can the maintenance ips ipv6? Dogi has purchased or
>> will purchase device to remote power cycle the machines.
>>
>> I don't think we will need to worry about backing up the machines.  I
>> have automated every thing so that it will be easier to configure a
>> new machine via puppet than restore a backup.  The only state we need
>> to worry about are the database and the nfsfile system which will
>> exist on at least 2 machines in the cluster and will get backed up
>> separately.
>
> I think you guys know better than me, but I'll try to summarize here:
>
>
> * rack space and power for 3 x 1U servers.
>
> * 4 public IP addresses
>
> * If possible. global IPv6 addresses should be routed as well
>   (otherwise we'll use 6to4)
>
> * Isolated gigabit LAN to interconnect the machines.
>   (this could be done with port management in the switch or
>   with a small dedicated switch).
>
> * Contacts of on-site sysadmins who could assist us in case of
>   emergencies (best-effort, no obligation).
>
> * Provide physical access to Sugar Labs sysadmins for initial
>   setup and future maintenance. The initial setup will be carried
>   on by Stefan "dogi" Unterhauser.
>
> * Bandwidth usage is projected to peak at 15-20Mbit/s during
>   morning hours (GMT+3).
>
> * We don't need space for backups as these servers won't store
>   valuable data and are easy to reconstruct from scratch
>
>
> If RIT agrees to host it, at a later time we might add one more 1U  
> or 2U
> server running our primary websites: wiki.sugarlabs.org,
> planet.sugarlabs.org, lists.sugarlabs.org and others. It's expected to
> use less bandwidth than ASLO, though.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
> \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>