[TriLUG] TriLUG Server Refresh

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

I would like to plug Debian Jessie as an OS choice.  Just released as
stable (8.0) this week.  I have been running Jessie for a while now,
granted more on workstations than servers and it is very nice.

Disclaimer - I have a long time Debian bias...

Ken

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Bill Farrow via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> 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
> --
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