[SAC] [support.osuosl.org #24234] OSGeo4 VM revamp Plan

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Tue Nov 25 15:45:55 PST 2014


If you still have the resources to loan us during the shuffle the
existing plan is still fine. We have not worked on future procurement at
all since our Foss4g conversation.

Thanks,
Alex

On 11/25/2014 11:58 AM, Justin Dugger via RT wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry for the delays. With the school year starting up in October our large K-12 client really siphoned off a lot of time of ours dealing with Moodle upgrades and consequent performance issues. And in the process I lost track of some tickets.
> 
> Obviously, we failed to get this plan in place by October. And unfortunately, I'm caught up in meetings for much of the rest of the day, and the Thanksgiving Holiday means our staff won't be around much later this week, so we'll be missing November as well.
> 
> Does the original plan still make sense?
> 
> Justin
> 
> On Fri Sep 19 14:27:56 2014, tech at wildintellect.com wrote:
>> Justin & Team,
>>
>> Based on our discussions at FOSS4G. Here's the plan to do some shuffling
>> and updates on the OSGeo hardware.
>>
>> Overview - move VMs off osgeo4 and redo the OS and Raid (Software Raid 5)
>>
>> Step 1.
>> Make sure Martin Spott knows how to use his new access of osgeo3 and
>> osgeo4 OS.
>>
>> Step 2.
>> Change the mail.osgeo.osuosl.org VM to drbd
>> Sync it over to osgeo3, failover to osgeo
>> Change back to non-drbd
>>
>> Step 3.
>> Schedule downtime (Mid-october) to turn off and copy Adhoc, Projects and
>> possibly QGIS to OSUOSL Ganeti cluster for a few days.
>> We might want a fresh Debian 7 VM for a QGIS rebuild - still checking
>>
>> Step 4.
>> Upgrade/Redo the osgeo4 OS. OSUOSL has a new standard right? We're fine
>> with that as long as Martin gets access to troubleshoot.
>>
>> Step 5.
>> Benchmark to make sure the disks are performing ok.
>>
>> Step 6. Move Mail, QGIS, Adhoc and Projects back.
>>
>> Long term, we will continue to investigate new hardware, docker, and are
>> open to suggestions on how to upgrade osgeo3 host OS with minimal
>> interruption.
>>
>> Please get back to us with a schedule for who and when we might do each
>> of these steps.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
> 
> 



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