Tasks, mostly in order of priority
- Inventory our devices.
- See inventory.
- Figure out how to add our devices to the University network.
- Find MAC address for managed switch?
- Install RockyLinux on the host, on one drive.
- Test harddrives
- Research distributed-filesystems/object-stores
- Ceph on native vs Ceph on ZFS?
- Can we use ZFS for root partition? Should we?
- This should be compatible with the performance limitations of our current NICs.
- They should be optimal for the storage controllers built in to the servers.
- move inventory list out of Google Drive.
- Applications:
- IRC bouncer
- Public access UNIX server
- Static hosting
- Research OpenStack, Proxmox, and vSphere.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/lca6cv/proxmox_vs_openstack/
- Will they support cloud services like container-as-a-service and object storage?
- How hard are they to maintain?
- Installation is a key difficulty with OpenStack. Here are some methods
- Ansible playbook: https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/openstack-ansible/latest/index.html
- Could start as single-node and branch out: https://docs.openstack.org/openstack-ansible/latest/user/aio/quickstart.html
- Traditional installation: https://docs.openstack.org/install-guide/
- Research OPNsense vs pfSense vs pure iptables?
- Research HDD capacity and speed
- What SSDs should we buy? How many? How big?
- Does the storage driver support mixed SSD and HDDs?
- Should there be a specialized storage vs compute node?
- See if this is a useful way to categorize tools.