[sf-lug] sf-lug site & hardware

[Mike Higashi]

Isn't that 1U pretty old -- a decade or more? Maybe it's time to retire it.

Mike


On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
wrote:
> Just an FYI update.
>
> So, my (overly optimistic) theoretical timeline - was hoping to have
> the sf-lug site relocated onto the higher availability hardware
> (notably not on VM on my laptop) by around 2015-11-15 or so.  Have
> adjusted the target timeline a bit, after some considerations (and also
> being relatively busy with other stuff too).  Anyway, one thing I
> didn't fully take into account earlier - fan noise.  That system that
> was in the colo - 1U unit, is comparatively noisy (I've gotten a bit
> spoiled mostly not listening to fan noise of such volume - even though
> it uses a fan and airflow design that mostly avoids tiny 1U high-RPM
> fan(s) - it's still noisier than most typical desktop systems - but
> less noisy than many typical 1U servers).  So, ... I adjusted my
> (theoretical) plans a bit.  With wakeonlan, qemu-kvm live migration,
> and wee bit of infrastructure (which I was mostly planning to do
> anyway), and small bit of scripting, I could arrange to have the VM
> running on the noisier (but higher availability) hardware, mostly only
> when it wouldn't be running on my laptop at home.  And with live
> migration, the migration would be effectively "invisible" to the guest
> VM host itself, its state, connections to it and sessions on it, etc.
> Anyway, fair bit closer to having that plan fully implemented.  Current
> target timeline for completion, by 2015-11-29, or at least not later
> than 2015-12-13.  May be fair bit sooner.  I'll update once it's in
> place and fully operational (did get a fair chunk of related
> infrastructure completed yesterday and today).
>
> references/excerpts:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_migration
>
>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>> Subject: Re: sf-lug site & hardware
>> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:01:41 -0800
>
>> FYI, this morning Jim Stockford and I did retrieve the physical server
>> host from the colo, upon which, up until some months back, the sf-lug
>> web site was running.  So, that improves the hardware resource
>> situation.  I'm guestimating I'll have the sf-lug website again running
>> on VM atop this hardware by sometime this weekend or so - that should
>> improve the availability a fair bit (notably the sf-lug website then
>> won't go down when my personal laptop goes down, offline, or out the
>> door from home).
>>
>> Thanks Jim!
>>
>>
>>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: Have you guys thought about http://www.freelists.org/
(hosted ...)
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:26:25 -0800
>>
>>> would be down or that it wasn't (relatively) high availability (at least
>>> compared to virtual machine running on my personal laptop - which does
>>> have the sf-lug site go out when my laptop goes out ... hopefully that
>>> situation will be improved in near future ... waiting on some resources
>>> to be able to do that.)
>>>
>>> references/excerpts:
>>> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q4/011454.html
>>> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q4/011441.html
>>>
>>>> From: Shane Tzen <shane at faultymonk.org>
>>>> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:56:14 -0800
>>>> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] updated/upgraded: SF-LUG - operating system
presently hosting
>>>> To: Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>>>> Cc: SF-LUG <sf-lug at linuxmafia.com>
>>>>
>>>> Have you guys thought about http://www.freelists.org/about.html ?
>>>>
>>>> Looks like various LUGs are hosted -
>>>> http://www.freelists.org/cat/Linux_and_UNIX
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Michael Paoli <
>>>> Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's been updated/upgraded:
>>>>> from: Debian GNU/Linux 7.9 (wheezy)
>>>>> to: Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 (jessie)
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2015-October/002989.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Still definitely *not* high availability though (alas, still sits atop
>>>>> a virtual machine on my *laptop*!).
>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully in not too horribly distant future (like *real soon*), the
>>>>> physical box the site was earlier running upon will be successfully
>>>>> retrieved - once that happens, some high(er) availability options
>>>>> become possible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know if you notice anything awry (notwithstanding the less than
>>>>> high availability).
>>>>>
>>>>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Subject: It's alive*!: Re: SF-LUG - DNS, web site, ..., etc.
>>>>>> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 03:10:26 -0700
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, have taken the liberty ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it's alive* ...
>>>>>> the [www.]sf-lug.{org,com}
>>>>>> websites are available again.
>
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