Hardware Selections

Summer 2011 hardware purchases were selected by Chris Sharp and Andy Witter. Here is a summary of what was considered for each type of server:
LVS machines (2):

role: hold virtual public IP for "gapines.org"; direct incoming packets to brick heads; act as firewall for the PINES cluster

HP ProLiant DL385 G7 Server
8-Core AMD Opteron Processor Model 6128
8 GB RAM
4 146GB hard drives
Application Bricks/Utility (7):

role: virtual machine hosts for each application brick (potentially 1 brick head [Apache] and 2 drone [OpenSRF] VMs per physical machine, memcache, utility, and SIP servers;

HP Proliant DL585 G7 Server
4 12-Core AMD Opteron Processors Model 6176SE
128 GB RAM
4 146GB hard drives
Storage (1):

role: provide storage location for PINES reports, backups, logs, and other large files; NFS mounted on multiple servers in the cluster (NOTE: originally envisioned to handle reports process)

HP ProLiant DL385 G7 High Performance Server
8-Core AMD Opteron Processor Model 6128
64 GB RAM
8 600GB hard drives
DB01/DB02 (2):

role: master database and hot spare master database; provide all front-end database functionality

HP ProLiant DL785 G6 Server
8 6-Core AMD Opteron Model 8439 SE Processors
128 GB RAM
8 146 GB hard drives
DB03 (1):

role: reports database (NOTE: envisioned as a replicated database to ease the load of patron searches, etc.)

HP ProLiant DL785 G6 Server
4 6-Core AMD Opteron Model 8439 SE Processors
64 GB RAM
8 146 GB hard drives

Our plan was to re-use newer generation in-warranty hardware from the legacy cluster to become permanent servers for logger, SIP and memcache functions.