[tech] Moving of all Servers to 2 Racks

[mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au]

Hi All.

Today Matt Didcoe and myself where at UCC working out what servers we  
have and what they do.

Next weekend we are planning to colsolidate the servers into 2 Racks,  
One located in the MR and one located in UCC (Probably where the tool  
cupboard is, And move that nearer to the Project/dump bench where it  
used to be)

What we are planning is to work out what boxes are currently used and  
what they do, Those what are general purpose.. Or have no purpose will  
be turned off or Moved into the "General/UCC" Rack and the more  
critical servers/tape library such as Mooneye/Madako/Mussel etc etc  
put into a Rack in the MR. Also the MR Cleaned to the extent its  
possibly empty on the day.

The UCC Rack will be a locked rack, With a Door that can potentially  
be opened by dispense, Similar to the UCC door.

The Date: We are hoping for Next weekend, Probably Sunday morning @  
9:00AM (13th) With all servers being powered down. This would tie in  
with the "TRS80 Extraction night". (dd if=/dev/trs80  
of=/dev/other/members)

Why?
The MR is a mess at the moment with unknown servers taking up rack  
space and creating heat that in the near future is gong to be a big  
issue on warm days.

Other ideas: One idea was to create a 3-4Box VMware Cluster (To keep  
is easily manageable and not have rely on others to manage it) This  
would host the Virtual pool Including some member boxes that run their  
IRC session and not much else...  I Understand this may irritate some  
but if you have a better idea, Please post to the list.

If anyone else has suggestions please post away. Over the next 5 days  
Matt and i will draw up a final plan for the rack space and how it can  
be used.

Mitch
UCC Wheel Member