[SAC] [OSGeo] #2534: Setup new OSMF servers with LXD

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#2534: Setup new OSMF servers with LXD
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 Reporter:  robe           |      Owner:  sac@…
     Type:  task           |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Sysadmin Contract 2020-III
Component:  Systems Admin  |   Keywords:
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 As mentioned here:
 https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2020-November/012798.html
 https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2020-November/012810.html
 https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2020-November/012808.html

 OSMF donated their two HP Proliant servers to us.  OSUOSL is holding them
 for us until we are ready to rebuild.

 The plan is to put Ubuntu 20.04 on them and LXD.  For these we will use
 them as extra CI bots.  I am hoping to also use them to house LXD VMS --
 VMS would be useful for testing OS that don't really support
 containerization or emulating architectures.

 I'm thinking things like FreeBSD and ARM architecture.
 LXD uses QEMU internally for hosting the VMS but you use the LXD interface
 for managing them just like the lighter weight LXC containers.

 Also thinking these would be useful for while we are upgrading OSGeo7 and
 OSGeo3/4 for moving mission critical things or hosting something like
 OpenNebula to allow projects to provision their own servers for testing
 etc.

 The specs as I understand it are as follows:

 {{{
 Stormy 01 - seems the biggest of the 2
 https://web.archive.org/web/20191112203036/https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/servers/stormfly-01.openstreetmap.org/


     HP ProLiant DL360 G6
     71 GB RAM - 18 x 4GB 1333 MT/s DDR3 DIMM
     Disk Controller: HP Smart Array P410i
     Disks: 8 x 300 GB HP EG0300FAWHV
     1.64 TB RAID6 array over 8 disks
     BIOS HP version P64
 }}}


 {{{
 Stormy 02 - Much less disk space we may want to consider replacing the
 disks on this one before going too far
 https://web.archive.org/web/20191112203042/https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/servers/stormfly-02.openstreetmap.org/

     HP ProLiant DL360 G6
     71 GB RAM - 18 x 4GB 1333 MT/s DDR3 DIMM
     Disk Controllers: HP Smart Array P410i
     Disks: 8 x 72 GB HP DH0072FAQRD
     410.01 GB RAID6 array over 8 disks
     BIOS HP version P64
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2534>
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