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− | '''Phoenix''' was our secondary VM host. It rose from the ashes of '''europa''' and '''xen2'''. It has since been decommissioned because the computer was crashing too often, and from it's ashes rose Felix.. |
+ | '''Phoenix''' was our secondary VM host. It rose from the ashes of '''europa''' and '''xen2'''. It has since been decommissioned because the computer was crashing too often, and from it's ashes rose '''Felix'''.. |
'''Phoenix''' has older drives than eevee, but several of them have never been used prior to being installed in Phoenix. Additionally, all 4 drives, which are 1 TB each, have been configured in RAID6 to allow for up to 2 failed drives and provide a total of 2 TB of storage. This is twice the amount of storage as eevee currently has and also twice the tolerance for failure. |
'''Phoenix''' has older drives than eevee, but several of them have never been used prior to being installed in Phoenix. Additionally, all 4 drives, which are 1 TB each, have been configured in RAID6 to allow for up to 2 failed drives and provide a total of 2 TB of storage. This is twice the amount of storage as eevee currently has and also twice the tolerance for failure. |
Revision as of 02:02, 15 January 2016
Phoenix | |
IP Address(es): | 128.153.145.40 |
Contact Person: | James Bruska & Killian Coddington |
Last Update: | Summer 2015 |
Services: | Various |
Hostname: | phoenix.cslabs.clarkson.edu |
Operating system: | Debian 8.0 Jessie |
NIC 1: | Clarkson Network MAC: ? IP: 128.153.145.40 |
CPU: | 2x Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz |
RAM: | 16 GB DDR2 |
Phoenix was our secondary VM host. It rose from the ashes of europa and xen2. It has since been decommissioned because the computer was crashing too often, and from it's ashes rose Felix..
Phoenix has older drives than eevee, but several of them have never been used prior to being installed in Phoenix. Additionally, all 4 drives, which are 1 TB each, have been configured in RAID6 to allow for up to 2 failed drives and provide a total of 2 TB of storage. This is twice the amount of storage as eevee currently has and also twice the tolerance for failure.
Each of Phoenix's CPUs are much older than, but roughly comparable in performance to Bennu's CPU. Thus, Phoenix also has roughly twice the computing power as Bennu.
Setup
Generally, we followed the instructions on the debian wiki.
Things to install
apt install htop vim sudo qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virtinst screen rsync
Network Bridge Setup
In order for the VMs to be on our LAN, a bridge must be set up as follows:
In /etc/network/interfaces:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 auto eth1 auto eth2 auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 128.153.145.40 netmask 255.255.254.0 gateway 128.153.144.1 bridge_ports all
After making modifications to this file, you can either restart networking (/etc/init.d/networking restart
, systemctl restart networking
, etc.) or use ifup br0
Bridging interfaces will cause the interfaces used to not have an ip address even if they are up. The bridge interface will contain an ip address.
Automated backups
Phoenix and Bennu will perform weekly backups of each others running VMs. This is a WIP.
Current VMs
Main VMs that are currently on Phoenix include