[tech] Bits for proxmox hosts

[Andrew Adamson]

Aaaand let's bump the number of SSD's up to four, since one of the system 
disks in loveday is in pre-failure with error counts growing by the day.

+$245 to what I would like approved.

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

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

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, Andrew Adamson wrote:

> Correction: that second ebay link should be
> http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/322487050341
> (maltair needs this to hold the SSD)
> 
> Andrew Adamson
> bob at ucc.asn.au
> 
> |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them."                |
> | ---Peter's Laws                                                        |
> 
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, Andrew Adamson wrote:
> 
> > Hi Committee + Tech,
> > 
> > While I was upgrading proxmox last month I noticed a couple of things we 
> > need+want for the cluster hosts:
> > 
> > Loveday
> > - needs two new 120mm front fans as one of them is dead
> > 
> > Maltair
> > - has remote management console capability but doesn't have a licence 
> > dongle to enable it.
> > 
> > Medico
> > - has a stick of ECC ram with a single bit error. The machine has been 
> > beeping for some time because of this.
> > 
> > I would also like to get a 500G SSD for each of the three hosts, so that 
> > we can set up ceph and have FAST clustered local storage on each host. 
> > This will allow us to run core servers (and especially machines hosting 
> > databases) while also allowing us to move those machines around between 
> > hosts as necessary. Currently mussel is hosted locally on maltair, but its 
> > space is limited and we have to shut it down to move it to another host. 
> > Having the extra space would allow us to virtualise mooneye as well, 
> > rather than buying a whole new server.
> > 
> > So, things I would like to buy:
> > 1 of http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/152435510280
> > 3 of http://www.austin.net.au/samsung-850-evo-500gb-internal-solid-state-dr.html
> > 2 of http://www.austin.net.au/cooler-master-sickleflow-120-blue-led-fan-rif.html
> > 1 of http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/152435510280
> > 1 of http://www.vtechindustries.com.au/catalog/product/view/id/41680/
> > 
> > Total without postage: $888.79
> > 
> > Anyway, I cc'ed tech@ here in case anyone has a better idea, alternatives, 
> > or protests, but failing this, please consider this my request to have 
> > this approved at next weeks committee meeting.
> > 
> > Andrew Adamson
> > bob at ucc.asn.au
> > 
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> > | ---Peter's Laws                                                        |
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