[Gluster-infra] New servers and usage for them

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

On 03/05/2015 07:26 AM, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le jeudi 05 mars 2015 à 04:08 +0000, Justin Clift a écrit :
>> On 4 Mar 2015, at 22:22, Michael Scherer <mscherer at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> So back in december, and as part of the project to mvoe some of the
>>> infra out of iweb, we got 2 servers to be hosted in RH DC. Due to
>>> various reasons, they are not yet online, but I will try to get them
>>> soon.
>>>
>>> Since we are starting to get to the limit of the sponsored
>>> infrastructure of Rackspace, Justin asked me to push that a bit ( as
>>> this was planned to be just the webserver, and we were not in a hurry, I
>>> didn't prioritize too much when they were plugged ).
...
>>> So this can be a bit challenging to have a external master to go on a
>>> slave behind a firewall. There is multiple solution to that problem
>>> ( VPN, moving the master on the server, having more than 1 server, etc,
>>> etc), so what are people ideas, based on what we need and what we want ?
>>
>>  From memory, these are the two servers bought for us, in place of the
>> two which Kaleb had been trying to get racked and publicly accessible
>> for a few months prior.  So, Kaleb's the lead guy on what these two new
>> servers are for then I guess. :)
>
...
>
> The 2nd one is big enough to replace the 2 servers that kaleb wanted to
> rack. I have no idea why we didn't went with the servers he had in the
> first place, but I supposed this was discussed before my involvement in
> the first place.
>

It was only one server, and believe it or not, it's ready. (Well, 
almost, one of the drives in one of the equallogics is bad. I have a 
replacement coming.)

Do we still want it? Personally I don't think we can have enough jenkins 
slaves, along with with getting off Rackspace, or at least under our $$$ 
allotment. Is there room for it in the rack the above equipment is 
intended to go in?

If you don't remember, it's a Dell R515 w/ 32G RAM, ~3TB in the PERC, 
and 16TB raw in a pair of Equallogic 6010s. (~11TB in RAID6.) Total 8U.

I wanted it to run slaves on, so it needs external/public connectivity.

I'm half tempted to drive it down to RDU myself and hold people's hands 
(twist their arms) to get it, and the above, installed pronto.

-- 

Kaleb