[SAC] New Backup Machine Configuration

[Alex Mandel]

On 09/10/2013 07:53 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> Feedback from OSUOSL:
>> Were you wanting to add this machine to your ganeti cluster using it for
>> more things other than backups? If so that shouldn't be a problem. Just
>> let me know what you'd like to do. If the box is just going to be for
>> backups I'm not sure how VMs will make things better.
> 
> So we have 2 options:
> 1. We can add it to ganeti, migrate the existing backup VM over then
> grow it's dick.
> 2. We can just have them install the main OS and give us access to setup
> bacula however we want. I do not know if there are any permissions
> restrictions at this level.
> 
> Long term option 1 means we can use the machine in other ways besides
> backups later on, not that we would, or as a failover for replicating
> some live machines on osgeo3 and osgeo4 (not a bad idea).
> 
> Any opinions.
> 
> Only thing I have down is the initial OS will use MD to create a
> software RAID 5 spanning all 4 disks.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex

FYI, it's been delivered today. So any feedback on this would be very
useful.

Thanks,
Alex