[SAC] [support.osuosl.org #23872] OSGeo Upgrade Planning

[Justin Dugger via RT]

OSGeo Team

I'm reviewing older tickets and I see we haven't actually responded to it. Yikes! 

I know I talked with you at FOSS4G, and the discussion you had at the time was that you were considering procuring more equipment, and I believe we have another ticket open regarding some temp VMs to enable upgrades / improvements. I'm going to close this ticket and update the other one.

Sorry for the delays!

Justin

On Mon May 12 12:15:47 2014, tech at wildintellect.com wrote:
> OSL Team,
> 
> OSGeo is thinking about some upgrades, but has a few questions...
> 
> 1st issue is the osgeo4 is still under-performing even after our recent
> hardware replacements. We were wondering if it's would be possible to
> temporarily move the VMs from that machine elsewhere in order to rebuild
> the machine as either RAID 5 or software RAID? The current RAID 6 is no
> longer necessary now that we have a dedicated backup machine.
> Would this be a good time for you to upgrade the host OS too? Or would
> that just be confusing since osgeo3 can't be upgraded at the same time
> and ganeti versions would mismatch?
> 
> 2nd question, if we do buy some new hardware, is there rack space
> available, how much? I think we've shown it's probably not a great idea
> to put some of our VMs on hosts shared with other projects. What's the
> current recommendations on the hardware from your side? In my head I'm
> thinking about 2x 1U boxes with 6x 2.5" drives. Obviously if #2 happens
> soon then that answers #1.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> OSGeo Sys Admin Committee
> 


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Justin Dugger
Senior System Administrator
OSU Open Source Lab