[SAC] [Fwd: [support.osuosl.org #11303] OSGeos New Servers]

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Alex Mandel wrote:
> For the initial tests I was going to ask for them to create Wiki and
> Backup which are both currently functions of osgeo2. What we need to
> decide today(~next 16h) is on how much ram and disk space to give to
> each and if we want to have drbd turned on for them.
> 
> Drbd is an uptime/failover cloning of a virtual machine, it requires
> double the hard drive space as the original virtual machine but allows
> for applying security updates or fail over service without downtime. The
> only vm I can think of that we need this on for sure is Secure(LDAP). I
> think it would be a waste of space on Backup since that vm is already on
> a RAID6 is a copy of data from all the other vms and isn't in constant
> use (it's only in use while things are being backed up, and it's config
> ie Bacula etc could be implemented on another machine rather quickly).

I've got no opinion on the ram/space question or the drbd idea - I'm
sure whatever you pick will be fine.   :)

Tyler