Pumpkin

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Pumpkin

Pumpkin is our new 8 CPU 24 disk monster machine. It is really, really nice. Currently it is only tied to the "corn" ip address. Because of this, it seems like we're going to have Corn be the big physical machine, and pumpkin be the virtualized machine.

Basic Setup

  • We will run Xen on this so that it can have 2 personalies: Pumpkin, 64-bit, and Corn, 32-bit, RHEL5.
  • The RAID is currently split. This allows for much easier maintenance and in the future possible upgrades.
    • Disk 1 to 11 is in RAID Set 0, which holds the RAID Volumes: System (300GB, RAID6, SCSI:0.0.0), System1(300GB, RAID6, SCSI:0.0.1), Data1 (6833GB, RAID5, SCSI:0.0.2)
    • Disk 11 to 22 is RAID Set 1, which holds the RAID Volume: Data2 (7499GB, RAID5, SCSI:0.0.3)
    • Disk 23 and 24 are passthrough (single disks) at SCSI:0.0.6 and SCSI:0.0.7. These can be used as spares, as backup, or to expand the other RAID sets later on.
    • The RAID card can be monitored at http://10.0.0.99/ login as "admin" with a password that is the same as the door combo.
    • To use this card with Linux you need a driver: arcmsr. This must be part of the initrd for the kernel, else you cannot boot from the RAID. Questionable…we were able to install via the CDs
      • The kernel module can be build from the sources located in /usr/src/kernels/Acera_RAID. Just run make.
  • There exists a temporary drive which holds a RHEL5 distro and the original RHEL4 distro from the manufacturer. It is currently disconnected from pumpkin.

To Do

  • Setup the other system with Xen on the System1 drive. Done. It just needs RHN-enabled Actually, not quit done yet. It needs a farm ethernet connection.
  • Setup SNMP for cacti monitoring.
  • Add the new systems to the lentil backup script
  • Restrict access (/etc/security/access.conf)
  • There must be other things....
  • Setup sensors so that we can monitor the system. Will have to wait for a kernel that supports it

Done

  • Setup ethernet.
  • Setup RAID volumes.
  • Setup partitions and create file systems.
  • Move the system to System drive and remove the current temp drive.
  • Setup mount points for the data drives.
  • Setup LDAP for users to log in.
  • Setup Exports, so other systems can see the drives. There were issues with firewall, so I modeled the firewall after taro's. Seems to be working, I can successfully ls /net/data/pumpkin1 and ls /net/data/pumpkin2 on einstein.
  • Setup autofs so that it can see other drives. What other drives? It's working for einstein:/home Other drives such as data drives
  • Setup smartd so we will know when a disk is going bad. This can be done inside the RAID card using a system to send SNMP and EMAIL. but it needs to be done. E-mail seems to be set up, let's see if we get any through npg-admins
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