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<H1>[Mageia-sysadm] questions about our infrastructure setup & costs</H1>
<B>Michael Scherer</B>
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<I>Tue Apr 3 14:38:48 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Le mardi 03 avril 2012 à 10:34 +0200, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
><i> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 21:00, Michael scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote:
</I>><i> > Well, you have the hardware we paid, no ?
</I>><i> > The accounting is on the bank account, and despites requiring searching, it
</I>><i> > was published.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > If iyou need information on the hardware we got at the beggining, I can send
</I>><i> > on this list a partial history of where
</I>><i> > does every piece of hardware come from, if that what you need, but I prefer to
</I>><i> > be sure that's really what you need before spending a afternoon on this.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It's more important, looking ahead, to know what is needed, because
</I>><i> the costs of the infrastructure before and today (offered/acquired
</I>><i> hardware, hosting, etc.) are not the same for hardware/services
</I>><i> available today or tomorrow. For a given service, the needs are known
</I>><i> and stable (or can be planned). The cost (and options) of that
</I>><i> infrastructure, on the other hand, may change more rapidly with time
</I>><i> (up or down).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > Basically : [...]
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > I do not say that's not a good idea to document ( I started to write
</I>><i> > various SOP on the wiki ), just that I fear that no one will
</I>><i> > be motivated to do it and to keep it up to date, especially for such a huge
</I>><i> > document.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Thanks for the tips anyway, I'll see what I can prepare with that,
</I>><i> although I'm afraid it's useless, given some echoes to this thread
</I>><i> (here and elsewhere). I won't be able to plan for your (sysadmin)
</I>><i> capacities and needs (that means, looking 2/3 years ahead), if you
</I>><i> don't tell me in a documented, maintained and clear way.
</I>
To tell the truth, I think we have more than what we need in term of
hardware. While we can always be ok with faster builders and so on, as I
say, we upgrade, stuff are seen as fast, and after 1 week, that's
becoming the reference speed and so people do not see it anymore.
So I propose to rather take in account than in X years, we will have
lost Y servers, Z harddrive, etc, and plan this.
( of course, we do not have X Y Z, but at least, that's the way i would
pursue for planning )
><i> Doesn't need to be a huge doc, especially for a start. But it needs to
</I>><i> revolve around something logical for deployment and understandable for
</I>><i> most, non technical people, so service-centered didn't seem absurd to
</I>><i> me, and a graphic-based format neither, so that a sense of priority
</I>><i> can be shared.
</I>
Service centered is not absurd, just it doesn't map easily to physical
hardware for now.
I would be in favor of moving from "one big server" to "several system"
for alamut ( and also for valstar maybe ). This would permit several
improvements :
- delayed upgrade ( ie, we will upgrade one service at a time )
- easier duplication for testing ( clone vm, upgrade vm, if it doesn't
work, we fix and try again )
- remote upgrade ( ie, done by the confort of my chair in Paris, not in
a noisy server room )
- better service isolation, and the path toward less centralized
management ( ie, we could let someone play with tx without touching to
the rest, etc ).
- better resilience, by moving vm accross server in case of upgrade, etc
an,d from a network point of view, a better layout ( ie, server are not
directly exposed to the internet, we can put a reverse proxy with
various goodies like a page to say "we are upgrading" when the virtual
server is down for maintainance, etc )
Until then, that's hard to say "this service requires that amount of
ressources".
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Michael Scherer
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