brutus the New IBM Machine

[Nick Chalko <ni...@chalko.com>]

I like the name.

Aaron Bannert wrote:

>Hi Gang,
>
>Brian, Scott Sanders and I set up two of the 345s last night and
>then racked them up in the colo. We kept an inventory of the two
>machines we unpacked that I'll attach below. It's probably safe to
>assume that the other two machines also have identical configurations.
>
>Both machines are running sshd and allow remote root over ssh. Accounts
>will need to be setup on both machines. Call me for the passwords.
>
>Machines:
>  1) "brutus.apache.org" - The Gump Machine
>    Debian something, stock everything, minimal install.
>      Kernel doesn't recognise SMP, kernel doesn't recognise >860G of RAM.
>      Other than that, everything seemed to be detected ok. I believe
>      console redirection is enabled on this machine. Also, we're able
>      to boot without a keyboard, and then plug in a keyboard after boot
>      and still have it work.
>
>    The built-in LSI RAID module didn't appear to support striping, so
>    we opted to leave the drives separate. The Gump people may wish to
>    stripe the two drives in this machine for better disk I/O without
>    the loss of available space (in software, or maybe in hardware if
>    the LSI turns out to support striping (RAID0)).
>
>    Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
>    /dev/sda1              7.9G   147M   7.4G   2% /
>    /dev/sda6               26G    34M    25G   1% /home
>    /dev/sdb6               34G   125M    32G   1% /usr
>
>     Basically the only thing running on here right now is sshd. We've
>     created a root account and a "rubys" account. Sam, feel free to
>     give me a call later to find out your password and the root password
>     (my number is in members.txt).
>
> <snip/>
>  
>

>Hosting/Colo Situation:
>  Power:
>    The socket we had installed at the Colo doesn't fit the plug on the
>    power distributor. Brian wrote down the exact lables from the plug and
>    the socket, so I don't have them here. I suppose we'll have to have
>    UL change the socket to match our plug. Comments?
>
>  UPS:
>    The on-loan and failing APC at the bottom of our rack is
>    disconnected.  The Belkin that Brian brought in is being used,
>    but only the terminal server and hermes are using battery backup.
>    Even though I brought in a power strip/surge protector, we're
>    out of sockets again, but once we get the power distributor
>    working we'll have plenty of sockets.
>
>  Switch:
>    I believe we have two more open ports on the switch.
>
>  Rack space:
>    UL gave us some shelves which we're using for the new IBM machines.
>    We made some room for the next two once they're ready.
>
>  Terminal server:
>    We made two more serial plugs for the two new machine, and plugged them
>    into ports 3 and 4 (IIRC, and I don't know in which order). We didn't
>    test these plugs, but we should be able to fire up getty on the
>    serial ports and see if we get a prompt over the terminal server.
>
>Inventory:
>  Both machines were the same. Here's the specs on each:
>
>   1) 2x 2.8Ghz Xeon CPUs (with hyperthreading)
>   2) 2x PC2100 - 1GB DDR 266Mhz CL2.5 ECC RAM (2GB total)
>   3) 1x Power Supply Unit, Hot Swap (room for one more)
>   4) 2x 36.4GB 15kRPM U320 SCSI HotSwap Harddrives - CRU 32P0736
>      (room for 4 more drives)
>
>Enjoy,
>-aaron
>  
>


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