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The official Site and Manual | The official Site and Manual | ||
Revision as of 15:51, 20 July 2010
Gourd is a 2 quad-CPU server in a 2U rackmount chassis put together nicely by Microway. It arrived at UNH on 11/24/2009. The system has an Areca RAID card with ethernet port and an IPMI card with ethernet port. The motherboard is from Super Micro.
This is the page for the new Gourd Hardware. The old Gourd is described here.
Gourd now hosts Einstein as a VM. The previous einstein hardware is described here
Hardware Details
- Microway 2U Storage Chassis with 8 SAS/SATA-II Hot-Swap Drive Bays with SAS Backplane
- 500W Redundant Hot-Swap Power Supply (2)
- Navion-S Dual Opteron PCI-Express Motherboard (H8DME-2);
- Two AMD "Shanghai" 2.4 GHz Quad Core Opteron 2378 (Socket F) Processors
- (8) 4GB DDR2 800 MHz ECC/Registered Memory (32GB Total Memory @ 533MHz)
- Dual Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Ports;
- Integrated ATI ES1000 Graphics;
- Six Integrated SATA-II Ports;
- Two x8 PCI Express slots;
- Two 64-bit 133/100MHz PCI-X slots;
- Two 64-bit 100MHz PCI-X slots;
- Up to 6 USB 1.1/2.0 ports (2 on rear);
- PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard connectors;
- Areca ARC-1220 8-Port SATA II Raid (256MB) - Low Profile PCI Express x8
- Sony Slim CD/DVD 24x Black (IDE)
Network Settings
- IP address UNH: 132.177.88.75 (eth1)
- IP address Farm: 10.0.0.252 (eth0)
- IP address RAID: 10.0.0.152
- IP address IPMI: 10.0.0.151
npghome Network Alias
Home folders are served over an aliased network interface associated with the npghome hostname. The network scripts that manage these interfaces are called ifcfg-npghomefarm and ifcfg-npghomeunh.
- IP address npghome Farm: 10.0.0.240 (eth0:1)
- IP address npghome UNH: 132.177.91.210 (eth1:1)
Software and Services
This section contains details about the services and software on Gourd and information about their configurations.
IPTables
Gourd uses the standard NPG iptables firewall. Gourd allows ssh, svn, icmp, portmap and nfs.
Gourd serves two volumes over NFS
Home folders: /home on Gourd contains home directories for all npg users. The NFS share is accessible to all hosts in the servers, npg_clients and dept_clients Netgroup lists, and to all 10.0.0.0/24 (server room backend) hosts.
Mail: To reduce the size of the size of the Einstein VM the /mail directory on Gourd stores mail for all npg users. The nfs share is accessible only to Einstein and is mounted in /var/spool/mail on Einstein.
/etc/exports
# Share home folders (copied from old Einstein)
/home \
@servers(rw,sync) \
@npg_clients(rw,sync) \
@dept_clients(rw,sync) \
10.0.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync)
# Share /mail with Einstein
/mail \
132.177.88.52(rw,sync) \
10.0.0.248(rw,no_root_squash,sync)
Subversion
Gourd our subversion code repositories stored in /home/svn/. The subversion service runs under xinetd. Its configuration is located in /etc/xinetd.d/svn
/etc/xinetd.d/svn
service svn
{
port = 3690
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = svn
server = /usr/bin/svnserve
server_args = -i -r /home/svn
disable = no
}
VMWare
Gourd is running VMWare Server version 2.0.2. It acts as our primary virtualization server. it is accessible at https://gourd.unh.edu:8333/ or from localhost:8222 if you're logged in or port forwarding from Gourd over SSH.
Guest VMs on Gourd
UPS Configuration
Gourd is connected to the APC SmartUPS 2200XL. It uses the apcupsd service to monitor the UPS. Use the following command (with sudo, or as root) to see a detailed list of information about the status of the UPS, including battery charge and current load.
service apcupsd status
Shutdown Script
apcupsd allows us to do some other useful things, for example it runs the script /etc/apcupsd/shutdown2 which monitors the current battery charge and shuts down certain non-critical systems at specific points to extend battery life. First, when the battery reaches 50% it shuts down taro, pumpkin, tomato, and roentgen. Later, when battery is at 5% it shuts down the remaining virtual machines, einstein and jalapeno. Shutting down einstein and jalapeno at 5% battery isn't meant to save battery, instead this is designed so that these machines have a chance to shut down normally before the battery backup is completely exhausted. The contents of the script can be viewed here.
SSH Keys
In order to issue remote shutdown commands to other machines gourd needs to issue a command over an ssh connection without a password. It uses an rsa key for this purpose (/root/.ssh/shutdown_id_rsa) and each machine is configured to allow gourd to use this key to issue a remote shutdown command. This key can't be used for shell logins or any other commands.
The official Site and Manual
Official Site User Manual
Disks and Raid Configuration
This is the post-migration Gourd disk setup (as of 03/01/10).
Disks and Raid configuration
| Drive Bay | Disk Size | Raid Set | Raid level |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 750 GB | System/Scratch | Raid1 + Raid0 |
| 2 | 750 GB | ||
| 3 | 750 GB | Software RAID | Pass Through |
| 4 | 750 GB | Software RAID | Pass Through |
| 5 | Empty | None | None |
| 6 | Empty | None | None |
| 7 | 750 GB | Hot Swap | None |
| 8 | 750 GB | Hot Swap | None |
Volume Set and Partition configuration
| Raid set | Volume set | Volume size | Partitions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | System(Raid1) | 250 GB | System: (/, /boot, /var, /tmp, /swap, /usr, /data ) |
| Set 2 | Scratch(Raid0) | 1000GB | Scratch space (/scratch) |
| /dev/md0 | sdc1 & sdb1 | 500 GB | Home Dirs: /home |
| /dev/md1 | sdc2 & sdd2 | 100 GB | Mail: /mail |
| /dev/md2 | sdc3 & sdd3 | 150 GB | Virtual Machines: /vmware |
