On May 25, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
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
A few weekends back, I installed Ubuntu and worked with it a bit. I
didn't see any big issues. There'll be a bit of a change, from what
some are used to, but nothing major, IMO.
--kevan
