OK, I just got the new GNOME file server installed and network configured.
http://www.stormyscorner.com/2010/01/gnome-got-an-amazing-christmas-present.html The machine is called combobox - Because we're planning to do both file serving on this and make this a virtualization host - so it's a "combination". - Because GtkComboBox is a container - holds stuff. (GtkComboBox is a pretty limited container, this is definitely not a limited machine, but you can't get perfection.) So far, about all its good for is a) logging in, if you are on the sysadmin team b) marveling at all the RAM, CPU, and is disk available. What I did ========== * reconfigured RAID to have one single raid-10 partition (64k stripe size) * Installed RHEL-5 into a 20GB / partition * Registered with RHN, fully updated, and configured machine for auto updates. * Added puppet node configuration node "combobox.gnome.org" { $public_ip = '209.132.180.174' $public_name = 'combobox' $private_name = 'combobox-back' include gnome_users include virtualization_host include postfix::client include backup } * Started puppet, signed server certificate on puppet server, made sure puppet configuration all ran completely. * Propagated wheel group accounts locally What remains to be done ======================= * Create a partition for data storage, mount it. (I'm thinking a 1TiB partition, leaving 300GiB or so free for VMs. Right now we are using LVM partitions for virtual machines on drawable.) * Migrate /home/users and /home/admin from container.gnome.org, the change the puppet configuration to pull from combobox, and also update fstab on the non-puppet-managed machines and remount. * Migrate mail archives export from container.gnome.org (exported to menubar) * Migrate cobbler from container - this will involve creating a cobbler puppet module and improving the docs from http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/Cobbler - the current cobbler setup is sort of hacked together. * Find anything else that's still on container and migrate that. (sysadmin.gnome.org is on container, but I'm not sure it has anything useful. I can't think of anything else, but some checking would be useful.) * Set up virtualization, either with KVM or Xen (we're using Xen on vbox, so there is some virtue to consistency, but KVM is the direction of the future.) * Start figuring out what VMs we want to run on combobox. Do we want to start the process of breaking apart and puppetizing window? Do we want to move live.gnome.org and other websites from label and leave label as just LDAP and Mango? Do we want to try and get stuff off the simpler 2004-vintage servers (button, menubar)? _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
