----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eyal Edri" <ee...@redhat.com> > To: "infra" <infra@ovirt.org> > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 8:43:16 AM > Subject: Moving to new infra vendor for the oVirt project > > Hi, > > Due to some technical difficulties and current experience we have decide to > switch hosting provider for the oVirt project, > to host mostly the Jenkins infra (jenkins slave mostly), but potentially > alterway servers as well (for production servers). > > I would like to hear your thoughts about which servers and HW requirements we > need for the infra. > > The proposed infra layout: > =========================== > 1. ovirt-engine 3.3.x stable manager to run on a VM[1] > 2. 3 bare-metal servers to serve as hypervisors for jenkins slaves and nested > vms for automation tests. [2] > we'll expect to run at least 4 VMs on each hypervisor for various jenkins > slaves, and have the ability to take one host for maintanance w/o > affecting the > infra downtime too much. > 3. external storage for a storage domain (NFS or ISCSI) and backups for all > oVirt services. [3]
+1 for NFS > 4. possibly manage alterway servers on the same ovirt-engine instance if > performance won't decline. > (we can request for a european datacenter if that will reduce latency). > we might want to install another foreman-proxy on that DC to allow > installing VMs locally. > we will want to migrate the jenkins server which is hosted on bare-metal > now on alterway to a VM as well. > 5. fast network connection [4] > > We need to decide on the optimal hardware for this infrastructure, going > forward with the oVirt project expanding > and needing more resources. > > an initial estimation for the hardware: (feel free to pitch in and > propose/change) > ======================================= > [1] engine VM should have 16GB RAM and 200GB disk, i'm not sure about which > CPU will be optimal yet - thoughts? > [2] bare metal hosts should have 48GB ram (with option to expand to 96 if > needed), no need for too much HD space if we're > going to use external storage servers. available servers are: > http://www.softlayer.com/dedicated-servers/dual-processor-servers > [3] 2TB NAS or Iscsi storage for hosting backups and storage domain for all > the VMs > [4] they offer public bandwitch of 5000GB, and a choise of uplink speeds - > 100mbps for public and private network for no-extra charge > or 1GBPS uplink for extra cost. > > ** current infra on RAX ** > > our current infra on RAX includes: (generally was OK, but not great > performance, low of storage, and slow since we uses local storage) > 3 RAX is DELL PowerEdge R720, with specs: > > 32 GB DELL RAM, GB Memory: 32 > Single Socket Six Core Intel Xeon E5-2640 2.5GHz, #Processors: 1, #Cores per > Proc: 6 > Hard Drive 100GB-2TB (only one server with 2TB, others have 100/300 GB) SAS > 7.2K RPM Drive, HDD RPM: 7200, GB Hard Drive: 2048 > 1GB network. > > > please weigh in your input asap, so we can push forward with migrating to the > new infra, > > Eyal. > _______________________________________________ > Infra mailing list > Infra@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra > _______________________________________________ Infra mailing list Infra@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra