Good news, techsters!
The 2U server has been delivered, yesterday afternoon, 1 day earlier
than my most recent estimate. (Specifications at the bottom of this
post, after all the blah-blah-blah.)
This means that I can run memtest86 (opteron version) overnight
tonight, and hand it over to the developers tomorrow.
Here is my schedule for today -
1. At 9AM I have an interview with Voice of America. That should take
only 10-15 minutes.
2. After that I will be going to my office downtown to pick up
various this and that (raid card for 1U server, Fedora Core 1 and 2
ISOs etc.) and heading to the colocation facility.
3. When I get to the colocation facility, I will do whatever I need
to do to get 3 of the 4 1U servers online immediately -- the Wikipedia
seems half dead to me this morning, I have a feeling the Yahoo feed
has launched and we're getting slaughtered. Hopefully those machines
can be pressed into service almost immediately to help relieve things.
4. For the "new zwinger", I will need to do whatever I need to do to
get the 2x250gb RAID array with fedora core installed. I think this
is going to be easy, as I already have 2 hard drives in a mirror with
Fedora core all ready -- but I made these in an old machine of mine,
and nothing ever works as planned with computers. :-) But once I get
that going, I'll hand that one over as well.
5. The people at Silicon Mechanics gave me a full explanation of
this, and after we discussed it, they went ahead and shipped the new
server with *32 bit* Fedora Core 1. That's because *64* bit Fedora
Core 1 would not install. But Fedora Core 2 (64 bit) *would* install,
and they would have been happy to do it for me, but because they have
a slow isdn line, and didn't have the ISOs yet, it was going to take
them longer than it would take me, so I had them just ship it.
So this means that I will be installing Fedora Core 2 64bit.
Additionally, they set up the RAID 10 like this:
219GB HW RAID 10 (split over 2 Channels)
But James Day has convinced me that this isn't exactly what we want.
I'm going to review our discussions of that, as well as discussions on
the list, and then I'll also show up in IRC to make a final
confirmation of what we want to do.
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Here are the specs...
Dual AMD Opteron 248 - 2.2Ghz - 1MB L2 Cache
Memory: 8GB (8x1GB) PC2700 Registered ECC
HDD (6): Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 73GB U320 15KRPM SCA SCSI
SCSI Controller: LSI MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 - 2 Channel U320 RAID 64MB Cache w/BBU
CD-ROM
Floppy
460W hotswap redundant power supplies (to be place on two different
circuits!)
--Jimbo