Hello, I've been testing OpenAFS for a while now, and I think we are soon ready to start moving user accounts, home directories and other shared folders to a production AFS environment. I would like to know what hardware folks are using for the OpenAFS components at a site comparable to our size:
* Approximately 500 users, each with their own user/home volume * At least 50 to 100 shared project directories which will have their own volume * Total disk usage is not going to be that high... initially about 500GB, but up to 2TB. We are using Windows domain controllers for the user accounts and Kerberos bits. We plan to use a mix of Virtual Machines and physical machines for OpenAFS database servers. And we plan to initially have a few (3 - 4) FileServer machines. Mainly, I am interested in finding out how much CPU and RAM the database server components of OpenAFS will take. We have donated old hardware with Dual Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processors and 4GB DDR2 RAM. And we can also allocate a few Virtual Machines with up to 4GB memory. Thoughts and other feedback is much appreciated. Thanks! -- Jonathan Nilsson, [email protected] Social Sciences Computing Services 949.824.1536, SSPA 4110, UC Irvine
