On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Kevan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I assume building out a new data center is something we will need to do, > regardless? These machines would put us over the tipping point?
No, not really - we're scheduled to get more power at OSU OSL in the late fall timeframe. That said, I don't think it makes sense to delay it until then if we can, plus we've been discussing a smaller co-lo facility for build boxes off and on in the past. So, I think we're willing to take this on. > I assume Ubuntu is the preferred Linux distribution for Infra? I don't have > any experience with it. I see that they choose KVM as their virtualization > technology. From a quick look, seems that Xen support is not too great. My > guess is that we can make Ubuntu/KVM work, but we should do some > investigating. I think G community members are more familiar with Suse, Red > Hat, and Xen. The infra team strongly prefers Ubuntu, so if it's possible for the G community members to investigate whether Ubuntu would satisfy their needs, then infrastructure can start doing the ground work for procuring the machines. -- justin
