Maintenance - 2025-03-31
24 Mar 2025
All servers, including Plex, will be offline most of 2025-03-31 due to power system work.
Server infrastructure
Maintenance - 2025-01-11
11 Jan 2025
Moving plex and related services to a different server.
Tags
Maintenance - 2024-12-07 & 2024-12-08
5 Dec 2024
Reracking and rewiring LMR site's three racks and three tape libraries. This includes network, storage, and servers.
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Dave Brooks Electric
25 Nov 2024
I've been using Dave Brooks Electric for a few years now - since I bought a house in Staunton, VA. The amount of outright unusual work I've had done to get my own up to scratch for my three full racks, three tape libraries, and to get my 16kVA UPS installed is absurd. That's not including the 48kW generator that's in progress.
Full review in post!
FreeIPA - Install Replica Fails - Install Admin User During Configuring CA Server
28 Feb 2023
Can't create a new replica of an older FreeIPA server (v4.6.8 on c7) to a new FreeIPA server (v4.9 on f36 and v4.10 on f37). The error is during the `Configuring certificate server (pki-tomcatd)` phase.
Digital Archive Cooling
20 Jan 2021
Up until now I've been cooling the thermally (and physically) isolated server room from the rest of my house and using a large mini-split to keep it cool. However the mini-split has reached its limits; The room now has 9-10 kW of gear in it.
Diagram Of Planned Network
16 Feb 2020
Storage Diagram - Ceph
16 Feb 2020
Storage Diagram - Lustre
16 Feb 2020
Network Gear In Place
14 Feb 2020
The network side of my rack redo is almost done. Once the two SRX650s on top are removed it'll be good to go.
Gear
- 4x SRX650s w/ 10GbE
- 2x RackSwitch G8264
- 2x RackSwitch G8000 w/ 10GbE
- 1x Digi console serve
- 1x Avocent KVM
- 2x Voltaire Infiniband 4036 - 4xQDR (aka 40Gbps)
IB Network
The IB network will be used for Lustre.