With the new purchase, we will rotate our setup in the following way:
Machine |
Current role |
New role |
Replaces |
Notes |
Dell PowerEdge 2970 |
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Main server (Krb5, AFS, LDAP, ...) |
Deleuze |
Intended as high-power, high throughput, high capacity system with spare disk slots for future capacity increase |
Deleuze |
Main server |
Web server, DB server, local user disk** |
Mire |
Databases and websites will in this way be on the same machine, and databases will use local disk storage. Local user disk access may be possible for users who want to use Krb5/AFS, but still have access to local disk. |
Mire |
Web server |
Shell server***, local user disk, web server |
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shell server which can kinit and aklog (Krb5 and AFS terms) if needed, but is basically intended as a standalone, regular Linux machine that offers local login (makes SSH keys possible), local disk and local web server for people who do not want to use Krb/AFS infrastructure |
Hopper |
Email processing |
Email processing |
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