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This page is meant to be an aid to our bug-tracker, in the case where several tasks are woven together via dependencies. Within a section, tasks are listed in order of which needs to be done first.

If you'd like to help, just join and email the administrators mailing list! No offer of free labor shall be refused.

Replacinging Old Machines

Mire

Mire is a crufty old ... mire of a machine. See FritzVirtualization for details on its replacement.

Mire is being split into two machines: navajos and bog. Navajos will run apache/cgi programs, bog will be the general shell and daemon server. The plan is to try our damndest to get everyone weened off of mire by the end of January 2013 so that we can free up rack space.

Status
New web server kvm has been installed, hcoop web services are being migrated before opening to members. After getting a few services moved over and ensuring the firewall request system works properly, bog will be spun up as a bare member shell server.
ETA

December 2012

Deleuze

Although still serving us well, Deleuze's Debian install is hopelessly obsolete, and its total horsepower equals about 1/8th of a modern low cost server.

The quickest way to replace it will be to acquire a new kvm server, and then spin up a pair of KernelVirtualMachines to serve the few remaining services on Deleuze:

Deleuze is also performing dns services, but those can be moved to hopper with ease.

New Server / Rack Cleanup

In order to remove deleuze on a reasonable timescale, we need a new server. Current thinking is that a Dell PowerEdge R515 configured with 2 6-core High Efficiency processors, 32GB RAM, and a 500G RAID1 will be acceptable. It's reasonably priced (~$2500, possibly lower when we acquire it), is decently faster than fritz, and is expandle with up to eight drives opening up a few possibilities:

If mire can be turned off in early February, then SteveKillen, BtTempleton, and ClintonEbadi are willing to take a road trip to the data center to perform a few tasks:

Then, we would drive the servers back to north carolina, destroy the hard drives, and recycle mire/krunk.

The most recent picture of the back of the rack shows what we're fighting:

mess

Immediate Tasks

Long Term

Neglected tasks

Tasks which non-admins can do, too

See HcoopVolunteerTasks for a list of things non-admins can help with.


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