Infrastructure:Wood
Wood is the primary server of the VTLUUG. It was built in late 2010 with hardware
selected by the Hardware Selection Task Force
and currently resides in the CVL in Whittemore Hall
uncurlhalo's house. The name "wood" was given to the server based on the
fact that until March 5th, 2011, it had no case and rested on a piece of plywood instead.
Wood is not currently in service due to the CVL eviction. Wood also has a tendency to short whenever someone touches the case, meaning it may stay out of service permanently. This is due, in part, to the horrible mounting and positioning in the case; the motherboard is a full 17" square, thus the PSU is mounted to nothing in the front of the case, along with the hard drives and CD drive.
The hardware is listed below, in info about the HSTF. To upgrade to a full 4 processors would cost about as much as 2 Raspberry Pis [1], and upgrading the RAM to 32 GiB or so would cost just a little more than that [2].
echarlie has set aside a 4U enclosure no longer in use by WUVT for use for wood. This enclosure has a better mounting layout, and *might* not cause Wood to short. It also has a power button.
Contents
Virtual machines
Wood hosts a number of virtual machines for the VTLUUG for various purposes.
| Hostname | Purpose | LDAP Login | Kerberos |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email, DNS tunnel, and shell server | Yes | Yes | |
| LDAP server | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Yes | ||
| Yes | Yes | ||
| DNS | Yes | Yes | |
| HTTP/MySQL/PostgreSQL server | Yes | Yes | |
| Syslog | No | No |
Hardware Selection Task Force
The original Hardware Selection Task Force was formed to purchase parts for the server which became Wood.
Motto
- Selecting the shit out of hardware since 2010
- That I May Serve (ha ha, get it, serve?)
Members
- Ol' Filthy Sweaty Bastard (guzzles)
- Ultra-Chronic Monstah (via)
- Curly-Haired Slacker (mutantmonkey)
- Bilious Bad Janitah (init1)
Names can be generated with the WuName Generator
Hardware
As of March 5th, 2011
Funding
We were generously allocated $800 in the fall of 2010 and $300 in the spring of 2011 by the Student Engineers' Council.
Purchases
| Category | Item | Unit Price | Quantity | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Opteron 8354 | $68.99 | 1 | |
| CPU heatsink and fan | Dyantron 1U active blower | $12.00 | 2 | |
| Motherboard | Tyan n4250QE Thunder Quad 1207(F) | $199.99 | 1 | Manual |
| RAM | 2x2GB DDR2 PC2-6400 800Mhz ECC Registered | $84.19 | 1 | |
| HDD | Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 RPM SATA | $199.99 | 1 | |
| PSU | iStarUSA 2U 500W | $99.99 | 1 | |
| Power cabling | 4-pin ATX to EPS 12V | $2.99 | 2 | |
| Enclosure | 2U (donated by Jagged) | Free | 1 | |
| RAM | 2x2 GB ECC Registered | $92.94 | 1 | |
| HDD | Western Digital Caviar Black WD2001FASS 2TB 7200 RPM | $169.99 | 1 |