Big question is
Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04 ?
(or debian 8 or 9)
discussion starting
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On 07/05/2018 02:05 PM, Vicky Vergara wrote:
Big question is
Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04 ?
(or debian 8 or 9)discussion starting
It sounded like most were ok with Ubuntu 18.04.
A reminder the reason we decided Ubuntu was better support for ZFS (for
disk caching support via optane/ssd) and LXD (container solution) when
compared to the latest Debian. Martin implied he might have alternatives
to achieve the same goals, and we're still open to ideas on this as long
as it meets the caching and container needs.
Next question, based on the drive arrangement how big a / partition
should we request OSUOSL make, what filesystem, and on what drive? Are
we taking a slice of one of the big spinning disks? Does that mess up
the ZFS raid equivalent?
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Osgeo7
I figured once the base OS is installed they can turn it over to us to
do the ZFS setup, including caching etc. It may be possible to have them
provide direct bare metal access to someone for the initial setup if we
have a strong commitment from who will handle that.
Thanks,
Alex
Sorry for the delayed response -- this ended up in my unprioritized
messages for some reason...
It seems to be that the machine is supposed to be configured with OOB
management platform, so all that should be needed from OSU's end is to
plug it in and provide a dhcp entry for it's management interface NIC,
IIUC?
As for OS, my understanding was the plan was to use most recent LTS
version of Ubuntu with ZFS and LXD. I believe that Ubuntu supports
root-on-ZFS without a problem, and that should be the preferred
installation (alternate boot device is fine too, but not generally
needed).
There is no "partitioning" needed with ZFS, just create the storage
pool(s) from your storage devices and add datasets as needed without
worrying about how to split up the available space.
~~~Chris~~~
On 07/24/2018 01:52 PM, Chris Giorgi wrote:
Sorry for the delayed response -- this ended up in my unprioritized
messages for some reason...
It seems to be that the machine is supposed to be configured with OOB
management platform, so all that should be needed from OSU's end is to
plug it in and provide a dhcp entry for it's management interface NIC,
IIUC?
As for OS, my understanding was the plan was to use most recent LTS
version of Ubuntu with ZFS and LXD. I believe that Ubuntu supports
root-on-ZFS without a problem, and that should be the preferred
installation (alternate boot device is fine too, but not generally
needed).
There is no "partitioning" needed with ZFS, just create the storage
pool(s) from your storage devices and add datasets as needed without
worrying about how to split up the available space.~~~Chris~~~
So using root-on-ZFS we don't need to specify the size of the Pool that
the OS installation goes into?
Also what sort of authentication method do you expect in order to access
the OOB management?
Chris will you do the initial setup?
Just trying to get the details so I know what we need to ask OSUOSL to
do vs what we can do ourselves.
Thanks,
Alex