Re: new servers

[Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroeder computer org>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Christer Edwards
<christer edwards gmail com> wrote:
> Team -
>
> I've had these new servers for a few weeks (my apologies for not
> getting them back out the door faster!). I think I've got them ready
> to go, I just wanted to throw out the basic install specs and see if
> anything wanted to be changed before we lost our physical access:
>
> R310 :
> hostname "orchid"

Hmmmmm why not try to fit with the existing (and unofficial) naming
spec. I'm in favor of functional names (webapps, master, etc) or
sticking to the existing standards. Most (if not all) of the existing
stuff is made up of gtk widgets or function.

> 2x250G 7.2k - Hardware RAID 1
>
> partitioning:
> /boot : 500M
> lv_root  : 20G

Is it safe to assume this is / ?

> lv_home : 20G

/home will be on nfs so why allocate so much? Isn't this the server
that will do primary for ldap, dns, mail? It seems like /var would be
pretty important here instead of /home as all three of those services
keep data primarily under /var.

> lv_swap : 4G
>
> software:
> RHEL6 @base + updates
>
>
> R610:
> hostname "lunchbox"

What about clutter? It has a lot of disks and will have lots of
different stuff on it. Not super opinionated on this, but it seems to
fit in with the existing stuff mostly.

> 6x500G 7.2k Drives
>  o 2x500G - Hardware RAID 1
>  o 4x500G - Hardware RAID 5
>
> partitioning: (RAID1)
> /boot : 500M
> lv_root : 20G
> lv_home : 20G
> lv_swap : 4G
>
> partitioning: (RAID5)
> full VG available (~1.4TB)
>
> software:
> RHEL6 @base + updates
>
>
> If you have any feedback or corrections you'd like to see before these
> go out the door, please let me know. They will be puppetized once they
> reach their destination.
>
> Christer

Good stuff! What filesystem are you using? ext3 or ext4?

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