[tech] New gear

[Adrian Chadd]

You could always ask me for more RAM. :)

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> 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@
> >
> >