NYI admin systems

This is the first early draft by Simon about what admin(ish) systems are needed at NYI.

Admin services

Systems

Name Class NOTES
admbas0 Low ns1,ntp1,console
admbas1 Low ns2,ntp2
admauth0 Low krb1,nis1
admauth1 Low krb2,nis2
netboot Low PXE,NFS
portsnap-master Low Also freebsd-update master
thud.nyi Medium shell host
www.nyi Medium Need 3-4TB storage for phweb
ftp-master.nyi Medium 4 GB RAM
portsnapX.nyi Medium Also freebsd-update mirror
svnpubX.nyi Medium 8 GB RAM Public svn mirror
ref9-amd64.nyi High Hot standby for vcs.nyi (p4, svn, cvs)
ref9-i386.nyi High Hot standby for hub

Y! systems, where a replacment isn't allocated:

  • mx1
  • mx2
  • cvsup-master
  • torrents

New systems

Common for all systems:

www.nyi

  • 2 * Intel Xeon E5620 (2.4Ghz) or similar
  • 8 or 12 GB RAM
  • 500 GB SAS storage for OS etc.
  • 4 TB SATA storage for pointyhat logfiles etc.
  • Hardware RAID controller
  • At least 1 hotspare per disk type, or possibly RAID6
  • Redundant PSU

vcs.nyi

  • 2 * Intel Xeon X5660 (2.8Ghz) or similar
  • 24GB RAM (32GB better)
  • 1 TB fast SAS storage for p4, cvs, and svn - IE, _lot_ of random access
  • Hardware RAID controller
  • At least 1 hotspare per disk type
  • Redundant PSU

admbasX / admauthX

These systems don't need to be fast, but must be reliable.

  • CPU where speed doesn't matter much. E.g. Intel Atom is fine
  • 1-2 GB RAM
  • 30+GB of reliable storage - either harddisk RAID1, or SSD etc.