[HCoop-Discuss] Finalizing Hardware Upgrade

[Richard Darst]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:25:13PM -0500, Clinton Ebadi wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> The board voted on Nov 8 to perform an in place upgrade at
> Peer1. <http://wiki.hcoop.net/Migration2009/HardwareUpgrade#OptionB>
> contains the specs for a hardware purchase; I think we should go with a
> single PowerEdge 2970 configured similarly and potentially replace our
> IPKVM/KVM with a proper IPMI management console.
> 
> We are looking now to nail down the final specs of the machines and
> purchase it within the next few weeks. I am leaning toward getting a
> hardware RAID5 and using either three 1TB or 500G drives for AFS and a
> smaller (lowest sized drives before the cost/G starts increasing) RAID1
> for the local file system on the machines. Suggestions are welcome.