[tech] Moving of all Servers to 2 Racks

[Jeremy Cole]

I think its high time something was done about the state of the machine
room, it's caught somewhere between a catastrophic mess and a hazardous zone
so more the power to us to clean it. I'll put my hand up to help is any
non-wheel members are needed.
M12

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Matt Didcoe <mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>wrote:

> On reflection, in relation to having a rack out in the clubroom, for now, I
> think we're better off keeping it in the machine room where the noise can be
> contained and the temperature controlled slightly better.
>
> We also have to work out a time to sit down and glean all we can from trs80
> so he can have a well deserved break before we jump into this so that date
> (13th) is very tentative at this point.
>
> The point of this exercise being to make the best use of space we can and
> to have a clean machine room that can be cooled efficiently and worked in
> without the fear of inadvertently killing something/someone.
>
> At this early stage, the idea is that the two servers on the bench, merasu
> (commissioned by JCF I believe) and mermaid be rack mounted to improve their
> ventilation and to free up bench space, network cabling for the servers be
> marked and tidied so it's a little less spaghetti like and that machines
> such as mudcat (CJS' play box - not that I'm specifically targeting you
> Chris :) ) be converted to VMs as they really don't need to be their own
> physical boxes (even though we do have many exFugro servers to spare).
>
> Mitch is doing up some diagrams now and will post to the list shortly.
>
> Matt [MRD]
>
>
> On 06/09/2009, at 5:06 PM, mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote:
>
>  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
>>
>>
>>
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