Albert

Functions

albert is an infrastructural VM host and nothing else.

Access

Admin access only. Email [email protected] if you need to report an issue.

Admin Notes

Case

• 3U 19 inch rackmount

PSU

• ATX PSU with both 4 and 8 pin cpu power connectors
• Wattage:

Slots

• 7 stock 3.5 inch hot swap slots
• 1 front, floppy slot
• 1 front, 5.25 inch slot
• 2 internal front 3.5 inch slots
• 2 3.5 inch slots on spreader bar

Addon Cards

• RAID/SATA controller
  • ports
  • model
• GPU see Server_Albert#GPU

Mother Board

RAM

• 4GB DDR2 ECC

CPU

• dual socket dual core Xeon
• has VM extensions
• no hyper-threading
• /proc/cpuinfo

   processor	: 0
   vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
   cpu family	: 6
   model		: 15
   model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5140  @ 2.33GHz
   stepping	: 6
   microcode	: 0x44
   cpu MHz		: 2333.448
   cache size	: 4096 KB
   fpu		: yes
   fpu_exception	: yes
   cpuid level	: 10
   wp		: yes
   flags		: fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl pni est ssse3 cx16 hypervisor lahf_lm dtherm
   bogomips	: 4666.89
   clflush size	: 64
   cache_alignment	: 64
   address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
   power management:
   
   processor	: 1
   vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
   cpu family	: 6
   model		: 15
   model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5140  @ 2.33GHz
   stepping	: 6
   microcode	: 0x44
   cpu MHz		: 2333.448
   cache size	: 4096 KB
   fpu		: yes
   fpu_exception	: yes
   cpuid level	: 10
   wp		: yes
   flags		: fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl pni est ssse3 cx16 hypervisor lahf_lm dtherm
   bogomips	: 4666.89
   clflush size	: 64
   cache_alignment	: 64
   address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
   power management:
   
   processor	: 2
   vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
   cpu family	: 6
   model		: 15
   model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5140  @ 2.33GHz
   stepping	: 6
   microcode	: 0x44
   cpu MHz		: 2333.448
   cache size	: 4096 KB
   fpu		: yes
   fpu_exception	: yes
   cpuid level	: 10
   wp		: yes
   flags		: fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl pni est ssse3 cx16 hypervisor lahf_lm dtherm
   bogomips	: 4666.89
   clflush size	: 64
   cache_alignment	: 64
   address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
   power management:
   
   processor	: 3
   vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
   cpu family	: 6
   model		: 15
   model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5140  @ 2.33GHz
   stepping	: 6
   microcode	: 0x44
   cpu MHz		: 2333.448
   cache size	: 4096 KB
   fpu		: yes
   fpu_exception	: yes
   cpuid level	: 10
   wp		: yes
   flags		: fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl pni est ssse3 cx16 hypervisor lahf_lm dtherm
   bogomips	: 4666.89
   clflush size	: 64
   cache_alignment	: 64
   address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
   power management:

GPU

• NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)

BIOS/UEFI

• Make - ?
• Version - ?

Menu

• ?Setup
• ?View Post
• ?Boot Select

OS

• Debian
  • Version - stable
  • Arch - amd64

OS Config

DomU

• Shell server - tortoise
• File server - hoard
• Squid Proxy - cthulhu

Storage

• Partitions #FIXME
  • All drives have stripe for /boot
  • 1TB drives
  • 500GB drives
  • 250GB drives
• Soft RAID # FIXME
  • the /boot stripe is RAID1
  • 250GB drives
  • 500GB drives
  • 1TB drives

LVM

• Volume Groups
  • albert
    • home
      • /home
    • root
      • /
    • swap
      • Contiguous LV.
    • nas
      • Attached to hoad.
      • Shell users' /home/users/*
      • Generic storage.
    • proxy
      • Attached to cthulhu.
      • Contains the cache from the proxies.
    • cthulhu-disk - 4GB
    • cthulhu-swap - 1GB
    • hoard-disk - 4GB
    • hoard-swap - 128MB
    • tortoise-disk - 4GB
    • tortoise-home - 50GB (will be reduced)
    • tortoise-swap - 128MB
    • tortoise-tmp - 10GB
    • tortoise-var - 30GB
    • template.debian-testing-minimal - 4GB
    • to be removed
      • template-swap
      • vms

Software

Xen HVM

• domain configs /etc/xen/conf
• configs tracked with git
  • use /etc/xen/conf/.commit to commit changes as nonroot user

VMs

• cthulhu - proxy server
• tortoise - shell server
• hoard - file server