[tech] [wheel] Summer Colo shutdown request

[bob_george33]

I am for this.

And then rebuilding it. I will spec it up in the next week.

Bobgeorge33


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-------- Original message --------
From: Anil Sharma <anil at propriocept.com> 
Date: 2013/12/14  04:12  (GMT+08:00) 
To: Bob Adamson <bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> 
Cc: wheel <wheel at ucc.asn.au>,Luke Williams <shmookey at shmookey.net>,tech at ucc.asn.au 
Subject: Re: [wheel] [tech] Summer Colo shutdown request 
 
TEAR THE MACHINE ROOM DOWN

On 13/12/2013 1:15 PM, "Andrew Adamson" <bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
As I understand it, you're not using sophocles for any hardware
experimentation, so is there any reason it can't be turned into a VM on
medico? It's just that sophocles uses the old P4 generation xeons which
run really hot.

If you really want your own physical machine that has to be on all the
time, could you upgrade to something that is substantially cooler?

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

|"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them."                |
| ---Peter's Laws                                                        |

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Luke Williams wrote:

> I use my colocated server (sophocles) extensively and the service is
> very valuable to me. Is this the kind of problem that can be solved
> with money?
>
> The alternative of commercial colocation is really expensive
> (>$1000/year) so I wouldn't feel hard done by if the club asked for a
> substantial fraction of that as a regular fee for members to keep
> their colos. If the cost deters enough low-use hardware to obviate the
> immediate heat issue, perhaps the money could be put into a special
> fund for improving the machine room. All under the broad protections
> of our standard SLA, of course.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Andrew Gozzard
> <gozzarda at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today, UCC suffered a total network failure as a result of Murasoi
> > overheating. With Summer rolling in, we think it is wise to try and reduce
> > the heat load in the machine room as much as possible.
> >
> > To this end all members with colocated machines in the UCC
> > Machine Room are asked to please remove or power off your machines.
> >
> > While this is not going to be enforced, be warned that UCC services take
> > priority over member colos, and as a result your machine may be shut off
> > without warning.
> >
> > In addition, Musundo has been taken down as a non-critical service that
> > was producing a not insignificant amount of heat.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > [GOZ]
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