[tech] New gear

[Adrian Woodley]

G'day David, et al,

I could do with a real machine to run bfb.asn.au on. The domain name is 
dedicated to provide web and email services to volunteer bush fire 
brigades in Australia. Currently its hosted on one of Adrian's virtual 
machines, but some real RAM would allow me to improve the spam/virus 
filtering and host brigade webpages.

The service is currently being run by Sawyers Valley Volunteer Bush Fire 
Brigade, although there is plans to fork off a separate association to 
house and manage the domain and its services. Either way, UCC would be 
donating the machine to a not-for-profit association (and not just 
AdrianW's collection of toys).

There are currently four volunteer brigades using this system, but with 
suitable funding and support we intend to expand it nation-wide.

A UCC logo and link could be displayed on the htt://bfb.asn.au/ site as 
a sponsor.

Cheers,

Adrian Woodley

David Adam wrote:
> Courtesy of Fugro FSI, the UCC now possesses 16 1U servers. They are dual

> single-core Xeon 2.4GHz machines with 3GB ECC Registered RAM.
>
> They only come with single 40GB (or so) ATA drives, which are likely to
be 
> unreliable having spent working lives as scratch disks. Dual Gigabit 
> Ethernet interfaces which might be useful.
>
> Two have gone to blinken@, I know adrian@ would like another couple for 
> his Squid cluster when he gets back in the country, and I'm considering 
> acquiring one.
>
> There's also three 2U Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers (sans drives) and a 1U 
> IBM X-series 335, which have shown up from (I think) iiNet, which gives
us 
> a fair chunk of new (to UCC) hardware. I have no real plans for what to
do 
> with it all yet, although we could probably replace Mooneye (perhaps with

> a VM, although not Xen because the networking seems to suck hard).
>
> David Adam
> UCC Wheel Member
> zanchey@
>
>