[TriLUG] TriLUG Server Refresh

[Bill Farrow via TriLUG]

TriLUG has acquired a new rackmount server from ncsu-lug. The Steering
Committee (SC) intends to replace our existing server, Pilot, by
moving it into a VM running on this new hardware. The plan is to
purchase new hard drives, install a small host OS, and bring up a kvm
guest of "pilot". We could use some help and advice:

* How many disks should we buy ?
* How should the disks be managed (lvm, raid, etc) ?
* What host OS ? (Pilot is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)
* How do we manage the host and VMs if we only have 1 public ipv4 address ?


Current Server:
  Supermicro X6DH8-XB, 2x Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3.2GHz, 2GB RAM
  3ware 9000 Storage Controller
  8x WDC WD2500SD-01KCC0 Hard Drives
  1x FUJITSU MHT2040BH

New Server:
  Dell PowerEdge 2950, 2x Intel Xeon X5450 3.0GHz, 32GB RAM
  8x empty drive slots for 2.5" SATA HDD
  http://trilug.org/~bgerard/moya.specs.tgz