[SAC] OSGeo Ganeti Cluster

[Alex M]

Lance,

We're currently shopping for the new machine, and figuring out how we
want to migrate off the older hardware.

In the meantime could we request a VM on your ganeti cluster to explore
if we want to try hosting more things on your systems instead of our own?
We'd like a Debian 9, with 2 cpu, 4 GB Ram, 100 GB hard drive.

We can supply ssh keys for access to root to configure the VM once up.

Thanks,
Alex
OSGeo Sys Admin


On 12/14/2017 04:41 PM, Lance Albertson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would say I don't trust osgeo4.
>>
>> I believe it has a failed drive in it's raid, that we did not replace in
>> anticipation of moving to new hardware. Also because it already burned
>> through a couple of replacements, and the raid rebuild times were
>> agonizing.
>>
> 
> ​Right, I had forgotten that its in a failed drive state.​
> 
> 
>> osgeo6, is already in, and is the replacement machine for osgeo4, we
>> just haven't finished moving everything off. osgeo6 does not run ganeti
>> or kvm at this time. We have debated if it should.
>>
>> I'm not sure we are using drbd for an instances anymore. Would it be
>> simpler to remove ganeti? Or is it possible to use other ganeti machines
>> you have as the 2nd disks for the shuffle and upgrade?
>>
> 
> ​You can't mixed Ganeti clusters ​unfortunately so we'd have to add a
> completely new node.
> 
> 
>> The new machine we are discussing is osgeo7 a replacement for osgeo3.
>>
> 
> ​*nods*​
> 
> 
>> Lance, what's the rack and PDU situation? If there is room we can order
>> it sooner. Last I knew we needed to get osgeo4 off and out before we
>> could add anything else. If there is room we can order sooner.
>>
> 
> ​We have plenty of room now​ so feel free to get that started.
> 
> Alternate option, what would be the cost if we just want to buy in to
>> existing Ganeti VM services OSUOSL is running? We aren't 100% sure the
>> direction we are going with containers, virtualization, and cloud
>> services. So an OSUOSL offer of "cloud" virtualization might be an option.
>>
> 
> ​​Our primary VM infrastructure is still based on Ganeti, however we've
> been exploring using OpenStack as an alternative for more elastic needs.
> We've been running an OpenStack cluster for the past several years on the
> ppc64le platform, but we haven't created a cluster for x86 yet. I was
> hoping we'd get something like that deployed sometime next year, but it
> depends on various factors.
> 
> What exactly are your needs in the medium and long term? We could put you
> on our primary Ganeti cluster but we have to be careful with any I/O
> intensive VMs so they don't impact other users.
> 
> Thanks-
>