Disks specification for osgeo6

cvvergara · September 19, 2025, 4:10pm

Dear Lance

We are planning to finish the mail server movement this weekend, then osgeo6 machine we can:

install an additional disks
format and install the OS needed for virtualization

We need to buy the additional disks, can you help us with the specifications based on the hardware we have. We at least need 2 for RAID.

Thanks
Vicky from OSGeo SAC

robe · September 19, 2025, 8:37pm

> We are planning to finish the mail server movement this weekend, then
> osgeo6 machine we can:
>
> - install an additional disks
> - format and install the OS needed for virtualization
>
> We need to buy the additional disks, can you help us with the
> specifications based on the hardware we have. We at least need 2 for RAID.

I need to log into the machine to take a closer look. It doesn't look like our ssh
key or our normal "osuadmin" user is on the system. Can you please add it
and use the following ssh key?

Thanks!

ssh-rsa
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAACAQDnBjOARXUzKUzYmdYe2UdpUhoZgG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 osuosl unmanaged

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

Account created and member of sudoers and key added. Let us know if you run into issues using it.

robe · September 19, 2025, 10:12pm

On Fri Sep 19 13:37:39 2025, lr@pcorp.us wrote:
> > > We are planning to finish the mail server movement this weekend,
> > > then
> > > osgeo6 machine we can:
> > >
> > > - install an additional disks
> > > - format and install the OS needed for virtualization
> > >
> > > We need to buy the additional disks, can you help us with the
> > > specifications based on the hardware we have. We at least need 2 for
RAID.
>
> Account created and member of sudoers and key added. Let us know if
> you run into issues using it.

Works!

Looks like this system has 6 slots which are all currently filled with 480G 2.5"
SATA Intel SSD's. So you can't add anymore, but you could replace some. How
would you like to proceed?

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

Oh didn't realize they were SSDs so it's a combo of RAID1 and RAID 5 config I see.
Ideally we'd want to have at least 6 TB of workable disk space. Is it possible to replace some of the disks but not all, or you think it's bad to have a mix of disks.

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 447.1G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 447.1G 0 part
  └─md1 9:1 0 1.3T 0 raid5
    ├─ogdata-www 253:0 0 75G 0 lvm /var/www
    ├─ogdata-home 253:1 0 50G 0 lvm /home
    ├─ogdata-mailman 253:2 0 60G 0 lvm /var/lib/mailman
    └─ogdata-download 253:3 0 150G 0 lvm /osgeo/download
sdb 8:16 0 447.1G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 447.1G 0 part
  └─md1 9:1 0 1.3T 0 raid5
    ├─ogdata-www 253:0 0 75G 0 lvm /var/www
    ├─ogdata-home 253:1 0 50G 0 lvm /home
    ├─ogdata-mailman 253:2 0 60G 0 lvm /var/lib/mailman
    └─ogdata-download 253:3 0 150G 0 lvm /osgeo/download
sdc 8:32 0 447.1G 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 447.1G 0 part
  └─md1 9:1 0 1.3T 0 raid5
    ├─ogdata-www 253:0 0 75G 0 lvm /var/www
    ├─ogdata-home 253:1 0 50G 0 lvm /home
    ├─ogdata-mailman 253:2 0 60G 0 lvm /var/lib/mailman
    └─ogdata-download 253:3 0 150G 0 lvm /osgeo/download
sdd 8:48 0 447.1G 0 disk
└─sdd1 8:49 0 447.1G 0 part
  └─md1 9:1 0 1.3T 0 raid5
    ├─ogdata-www 253:0 0 75G 0 lvm /var/www
    ├─ogdata-home 253:1 0 50G 0 lvm /home
    ├─ogdata-mailman 253:2 0 60G 0 lvm /var/lib/mailman
    └─ogdata-download 253:3 0 150G 0 lvm /osgeo/download
sde 8:64 0 74.5G 0 disk
└─sde1 8:65 0 74.5G 0 part
  └─md0 9:0 0 74.5G 0 raid1
    ├─osgeo6-boot 253:4 0 244M 0 lvm /boot
    ├─osgeo6-root 253:5 0 18.6G 0 lvm /
    ├─osgeo6-swap 253:6 0 14.9G 0 lvm [SWAP]
    └─osgeo6-var 253:7 0 18.6G 0 lvm /var
sdf 8:80 0 74.5G 0 disk
└─sdf1 8:81 0 74.5G 0 part
  └─md0 9:0 0 74.5G 0 raid1
    ├─osgeo6-boot 253:4 0 244M 0 lvm /boot
    ├─osgeo6-root 253:5 0 18.6G 0 lvm /
    ├─osgeo6-swap 253:6 0 14.9G 0 lvm [SWAP]
    └─osgeo6-var 253:7 0 18.6G 0 lvm /var

Lance_Albertson_via · September 19, 2025, 11:20pm

On Fri Sep 19 13:37:39 2025, lr@pcorp.us wrote:
> > > We are planning to finish the mail server movement this weekend,
> > > then
> > > osgeo6 machine we can:
> > >
> > > - install an additional disks
> > > - format and install the OS needed for virtualization
> > >
> > > We need to buy the additional disks, can you help us with the
> > > specifications based on the hardware we have. We at least need 2 for
RAID.
>
> Account created and member of sudoers and key added. Let us know if
> you run into issues using it.

Works!

Looks like this system has 6 slots which are all currently filled with 480G 2.5"
SATA Intel SSD's. So you can't add anymore, but you could replace some. How
would you like to proceed?

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

Oh didn't realize they were SSDs so it's a combo of RAID1 and RAID 5 config I see.
Ideally we'd want to have at least 6 TB of workable disk space. Is it possible to replace some of the disks but not all, or you think it's bad to have a mix of disks.

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 447.1G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 447.1G 0 part
  └─md1 9:1 0 1.3T 0 raid5
    ├─ogdata-www 253:0 0 75G 0 lvm /var/www
    ├─ogdata-home 253:1 0 50G 0 lvm /home
    ├─ogdata-mailman 253:2 0 60G 0 lvm /var/lib/mailman
    └─ogdata-download 253:3 0 150G 0 lvm /osgeo/download
sdb 8:16 0 447.1G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 447.1G 0 part
  └─md1 9:1 0 1.3T 0 raid5
    ├─ogdata-www 253:0 0 75G 0 lvm /var/www
    ├─ogdata-home 253:1 0 50G 0 lvm /home
    ├─ogdata-mailman 253:2 0 60G 0 lvm /var/lib/mailman
    └─ogdata-download 253:3 0 150G 0 lvm /osgeo/download
sdc 8:32 0 447.1G 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 447.1G 0 part
  └─md1 9:1 0 1.3T 0 raid5
    ├─ogdata-www 253:0 0 75G 0 lvm /var/www
    ├─ogdata-home 253:1 0 50G 0 lvm /home
    ├─ogdata-mailman 253:2 0 60G 0 lvm /var/lib/mailman
    └─ogdata-download 253:3 0 150G 0 lvm /osgeo/download
sdd 8:48 0 447.1G 0 disk
└─sdd1 8:49 0 447.1G 0 part
  └─md1 9:1 0 1.3T 0 raid5
    ├─ogdata-www 253:0 0 75G 0 lvm /var/www
    ├─ogdata-home 253:1 0 50G 0 lvm /home
    ├─ogdata-mailman 253:2 0 60G 0 lvm /var/lib/mailman
    └─ogdata-download 253:3 0 150G 0 lvm /osgeo/download
sde 8:64 0 74.5G 0 disk
└─sde1 8:65 0 74.5G 0 part
  └─md0 9:0 0 74.5G 0 raid1
    ├─osgeo6-boot 253:4 0 244M 0 lvm /boot
    ├─osgeo6-root 253:5 0 18.6G 0 lvm /
    ├─osgeo6-swap 253:6 0 14.9G 0 lvm [SWAP]
    └─osgeo6-var 253:7 0 18.6G 0 lvm /var
sdf 8:80 0 74.5G 0 disk
└─sdf1 8:81 0 74.5G 0 part
  └─md0 9:0 0 74.5G 0 raid1
    ├─osgeo6-boot 253:4 0 244M 0 lvm /boot
    ├─osgeo6-root 253:5 0 18.6G 0 lvm /
    ├─osgeo6-swap 253:6 0 14.9G 0 lvm [SWAP]
    └─osgeo6-var 253:7 0 18.6G 0 lvm /var

Lance_Albertson_via · September 19, 2025, 11:20pm

> We are planning to finish the mail server movement this weekend, then
> osgeo6 machine we can:
>
> - install an additional disks
> - format and install the OS needed for virtualization
>
> We need to buy the additional disks, can you help us with the
> specifications based on the hardware we have. We at least need 2 for RAID.

I need to log into the machine to take a closer look. It doesn't look like our ssh
key or our normal "osuadmin" user is on the system. Can you please add it
and use the following ssh key?

Thanks!

ssh-rsa
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAACAQDnBjOARXUzKUzYmdYe2UdpUhoZgG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 osuosl unmanaged

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

Account created and member of sudoers and key added. Let us know if you run into issues using it.

Lance_Albertson_via · September 19, 2025, 11:20pm

On Fri Sep 19 13:37:39 2025, lr@pcorp.us wrote:

> > We are planning to finish the mail server movement this weekend, then
> > osgeo6 machine we can:
> >
> > - install an additional disks
> > - format and install the OS needed for virtualization
> >
> > We need to buy the additional disks, can you help us with the
> > specifications based on the hardware we have. We at least need 2 for RAID.

Account created and member of sudoers and key added. Let us know if you run
into issues using it.

Works!

Looks like this system has 6 slots which are all currently filled with 480G
2.5" SATA Intel SSD's. So you can't add anymore, but you could replace some. How
would you like to proceed?

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

Lance_Albertson_via · September 19, 2025, 11:20pm

[Moved this to our ticketing system]

On Fri Sep 19 10:05:58 2025, lance@osuosl.org wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Vicky Vergara <vicky@erosion.dev>
Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Subject: Disks specification for osgeo6
To: lance@osuosl.org <lance@osuosl.org>
Cc: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo <sac@lists.osgeo.org>

Dear Lance

We are planning to finish the mail server movement this weekend, then osgeo6
machine we can:

- install an additional disks
- format and install the OS needed for virtualization

We need to buy the additional disks, can you help us with the specifications
based on the hardware we have. We at least need 2 for RAID.

I need to log into the machine to take a closer look. It doesn't look like our
ssh key or our normal "osuadmin" user is on the system. Can you please add it
and use the following ssh key?

Thanks!

ssh-rsa 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 osuosl unmanaged

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

Lance_Albertson_via · September 22, 2025, 2:20pm

On Fri Sep 19 15:12:35 2025, lr@pcorp.us wrote:

> Looks like this system has 6 slots which are all currently filled with 480G
> 2.5" SATA Intel SSD's. So you can't add anymore, but you could replace some.
> How would you like to proceed?
>
Oh didn't realize they were SSDs so it's a combo of RAID1 and RAID 5 config I
see. Ideally we'd want to have at least 6 TB of workable disk space. Is it
possible to replace some of the disks but not all, or you think it's bad to
have a mix of disks.

So currently this is how the RAID is split:

md0 : active raid1 sdf1[1] sde1[0]
78084096 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid5 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
1406155776 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
bitmap: 0/4 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk

PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/md0 osgeo6 lvm2 a-- 74.46g <22.08g
/dev/md1 ogdata lvm2 a-- <1.31t 1006.01g

LV VG Attr LSize
download ogdata -wi-ao---- 150.00g
home ogdata -wi-ao---- 50.00g
mailman ogdata -wi-ao---- 60.00g
www ogdata -wi-ao---- 75.00g
boot osgeo6 -wi-ao---- 244.00m
root osgeo6 -wi-ao---- 18.62g
swap osgeo6 -wi-ao---- <14.90g
var osgeo6 -wi-ao---- 18.62g

Which volume(s) do you want to increase the capacity on? I'm assuming it's
anything on the "ogdata" volume group which is the RAID5.

We could expand the space of that online, however it would require replacing all
four disks with the same size disk. We would have to replace them one by one
allowing the RAID to rebuild. The last replacement should allow us to expand the
pv and vg.

Does this help?

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

Lance_Albertson_via · September 22, 2025, 2:39pm

So currently this is how the RAID is split:

md0 : active raid1 sdf1[1] sde1[0]
      78084096 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid5 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
      1406155776 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4]
[UUUU]
      bitmap: 0/4 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk

PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/md0 osgeo6 lvm2 a-- 74.46g <22.08g
/dev/md1 ogdata lvm2 a-- <1.31t 1006.01g

LV VG Attr LSize
download ogdata -wi-ao---- 150.00g
home ogdata -wi-ao---- 50.00g
mailman ogdata -wi-ao---- 60.00g
www ogdata -wi-ao---- 75.00g
boot osgeo6 -wi-ao---- 244.00m
root osgeo6 -wi-ao---- 18.62g
swap osgeo6 -wi-ao---- <14.90g
var osgeo6 -wi-ao---- 18.62g

Which volume(s) do you want to increase the capacity on? I'm assuming it's
anything on the "ogdata" volume group which is the RAID5.

We could expand the space of that online, however it would require replacing
all four disks with the same size disk. We would have to replace them one by
one allowing the RAID to rebuild. The last replacement should allow us to
expand the pv and vg.

Does this help?

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

We want the whole server reformatted so what is currently there is irrelevant.
No need to try to salvage any data.

We switched over mail and lists on that server already to osgeo9 over the weekend.
We plan to keep osgeo6 live for perhaps another week or so and then have you shut it off.

We have a backup of all the pieces we cared to keep already.

Right now we are just trying to figure out how much we want to spend for disks on this server
Vs. how much space we'll be able to expand.

Lance_Albertson_via · September 22, 2025, 3:02pm

On Mon Sep 22 07:39:10 2025, lr@pcorp.us wrote:

We want the whole server reformatted so what is currently there is irrelevant.
No need to try to salvage any data.

We switched over mail and lists on that server already to osgeo9 over the
weekend. We plan to keep osgeo6 live for perhaps another week or so and then
have you shut it off.

We have a backup of all the pieces we cared to keep already.

Right now we are just trying to figure out how much we want to spend for disks
on this server Vs. how much space we'll be able to expand.

Well that makes it easy

The only requirements you need is that the disks need to be SATA and 2.5" form
factor. Other than that, anything should work.

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

robe · September 22, 2025, 2:38pm

So currently this is how the RAID is split:

md0 : active raid1 sdf1[1] sde1[0]
      78084096 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid5 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
      1406155776 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4]
[UUUU]
      bitmap: 0/4 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk

PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/md0 osgeo6 lvm2 a-- 74.46g <22.08g
/dev/md1 ogdata lvm2 a-- <1.31t 1006.01g

LV VG Attr LSize
download ogdata -wi-ao---- 150.00g
home ogdata -wi-ao---- 50.00g
mailman ogdata -wi-ao---- 60.00g
www ogdata -wi-ao---- 75.00g
boot osgeo6 -wi-ao---- 244.00m
root osgeo6 -wi-ao---- 18.62g
swap osgeo6 -wi-ao---- <14.90g
var osgeo6 -wi-ao---- 18.62g

Which volume(s) do you want to increase the capacity on? I'm assuming it's
anything on the "ogdata" volume group which is the RAID5.

We could expand the space of that online, however it would require replacing
all four disks with the same size disk. We would have to replace them one by
one allowing the RAID to rebuild. The last replacement should allow us to
expand the pv and vg.

Does this help?

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

We want the whole server reformatted so what is currently there is irrelevant.
No need to try to salvage any data.

We switched over mail and lists on that server already to osgeo9 over the weekend.
We plan to keep osgeo6 live for perhaps another week or so and then have you shut it off.

We have a backup of all the pieces we cared to keep already.

Right now we are just trying to figure out how much we want to spend for disks on this server
Vs. how much space we'll be able to expand.

robe · October 23, 2025, 8:31pm

Hi all

This the option Regina found:
https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Inch-Internal-MZ-77E1T0B-
AM/dp/B08QB93S6R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GY3TIQOCCXY4&th=1

We would use size 2TB disks: $186 * 6 = $1116 Will give us 12TB space which
I think will be at least 6TB of usable space (RAID would take the other 6TB)
Keep in mind we are throwing out osgeo3 and osgeo4 (which has all the
backups, staging) So we do need the space

Please let me know your comments

Regards
Vicky

My only concern is what Grant mentioned

that these disks are really not meant for server use and that we should look for Pro or Data
Center editions disks from resellers.

I'm not sure of reliable resellers though and an unreliable one is probably worse than getting not optimal disks.

Grant,

You have any thoughts on good resellers. I don't think we want to spend more than $2000 on these disks
Given we might not have use for this server after a year or so.

Thanks,
Regina

lnicola · October 23, 2025, 8:39pm

Are our current drives enterprise models?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025, at 23:31, Regina Obe wrote:

My only concern is what Grant mentioned

OSGeo6 new SSD disks for SAC

that these disks are really not meant for server use and that we should
look for Pro or Data
Center editions disks from resellers.

Lance_Albertson_via · October 23, 2025, 9:44pm

On Thu Oct 23 13:07:57 2025, vicky@erosion.dev wrote:

Hi all

This the option Regina found:
Amazon.com

We would use size 2TB disks: $186 * 6 = $1116
Will give us 12TB space which I think will be at least 6TB of usable space
(RAID would take the other 6TB)

Keep in mind we are throwing out osgeo3 and osgeo4 (which has all the backups,
staging) So we do need the space

Please let me know your comments

Looks good from my point of view.

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

Lance_Albertson_via · October 23, 2025, 8:07pm

Hi all

This the option Regina found:

We would use size 2TB disks: $186 * 6 = $1116
Will give us 12TB space which I think will be at least 6TB of usable
space (RAID would take the other 6TB)
Keep in mind we are throwing out osgeo3 and osgeo4 (which has all the
backups, staging) So we do need the space

Please let me know your comments

Regards
Vicky

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM Lance Albertson via RT <support@osuosl.org>
wrote:

On Mon Sep 22 07:39:10 2025, lr@pcorp.us wrote:
> We want the whole server reformatted so what is currently there is
irrelevant.
> No need to try to salvage any data.
>
> We switched over mail and lists on that server already to osgeo9 over the
> weekend. We plan to keep osgeo6 live for perhaps another week or so and
then
> have you shut it off.
>
> We have a backup of all the pieces we cared to keep already.
>
> Right now we are just trying to figure out how much we want to spend for
disks
> on this server Vs. how much space we'll be able to expand.

Well that makes it easy

The only requirements you need is that the disks need to be SATA and 2.5"
form
factor. Other than that, anything should work.

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

cvvergara · October 23, 2025, 8:07pm

Hi all

This the option Regina found:
https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Inch-Internal-MZ-77E1T0B-AM/dp/B08QB93S6R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GY3TIQOCCXY4&th=1

We would use size 2TB disks: $186 * 6 = $1116

Will give us 12TB space which I think will be at least 6TB of usable space (RAID would take the other 6TB)
Keep in mind we are throwing out osgeo3 and osgeo4 (which has all the backups, staging) So we do need the space

Please let me know your comments

Regards
Vicky

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM Lance Albertson via RT <support@osuosl.org> wrote:

On Mon Sep 22 07:39:10 2025, lr@pcorp.us wrote:

We want the whole server reformatted so what is currently there is irrelevant.
No need to try to salvage any data.

We switched over mail and lists on that server already to osgeo9 over the
weekend. We plan to keep osgeo6 live for perhaps another week or so and then
have you shut it off.

We have a backup of all the pieces we cared to keep already.

Right now we are just trying to figure out how much we want to spend for disks
on this server Vs. how much space we’ll be able to expand.

Well that makes it easy

The only requirements you need is that the disks need to be SATA and 2.5" form
factor. Other than that, anything should work.

–
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

Grant_Slater · October 23, 2025, 11:28pm

On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 at 23:31, Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us> wrote:

Grant,

You have any thoughts on good resellers. I don't think we want to spend more than $2000 on these disks
Given we might not have use for this server after a year or so.

Do you NEED SATA or SAS?

There are quite a few Samsung 860 Pro SATA disks available on ebay.
I've bought from this reseller in the past and they seem reputable:

The remaining endurance / write capacity is important, unfortunately
not stated by listing.
Firmware easily available, but may need to flashed from ISO when
connected to SATA controller (not hardware RAID)

They also have larger Samsung disks, but no direct experience with this model:

Firmware is harder to find, but few forums have links.

Kind regards,

Grant