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2009 hardware purchase proposal

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Proposal to purchase new machines for OBF

Justification

  • It is imperative that we move to x86_64 so we can do better support of modern hardware
  • Need to upgrade to more modern kernels and OS
  • Propose to stay with CentOS (?)

Proposed purchases

  • A new machine to replace Portal which would be Xen enabled and virtually support mailing lists, web wiki.
  • A new machine to replace dev which would be Xen enabled? and support SVN, GIT(?)
  • Chris to insert price quote(s) and specs here

Deployment and upgrade plan

  • Decomission old machines, helps free up donated rackspace from BioTeam
  • Setting up worldwide mirrors for backup purposes (rsync scripts from the repository?)
    • Our 2 most valuable components are src code and mailing list (archives and membership). Losing these or being down is a HUGE problem. Can we insure these are protected and redundantly preserved?
  • How can we balancing security, all volunteer sysadmin team, moderate latency in response to issues (due to all volunteer nature)

Community requests

  • Latest and greatest src code tools - GIT/Mercurial, previously Trac was also requested.
    • Has been problematic to support because we currently don't allow HTTP access to dev machine
    • Can we setup NFS + httpd on separate machine with mirrored FS (read-only) or NFS(read-write) or other system?
  • How do we keep Wiki's up-to-date w software - better wikifarm support?