OSL Beer Fund
So, here is a crazy idea that I actually got around to implementing: The OSL Beer Fund. As a sysadmin for the Open Source Lab I work with a lot of people via email and IRC from all over the world. As a student I don't exactly have much of a budget to travel to far off conferences to meet up with many of those people. So the idea is this: if you would like to help save our sanity or simply say thanks to one of us but can't meet up for beers in person why not contribute a couple bucks to our beer fund? In return we can even give your favorite server a little extra luvin'. Just contribute via paypal to beerfund_AT_osuosl.org.
Disclaimer:
The OSL Beer Fund is not associated with the OSU Open Source Lab in any official way. It just happens to have the email account 'beerfund' under the osuosl.org domain, by chance a random letter generator gave us the acronym 'OSL' to use as the fund's name, and somehow all beer purchased with the fund manages to go to students who work for the Open Source Lab (and who are of age of course). How that all worked out I don't know, we sure didn't plan it. ;-)
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Down the road I want to replace the current disk node with two boxes replicating the data using DRBD and set up psat graceful fail-over between the two using heartbeat. The current plan is to upgrade the disk space on our mirror servers and use some of the old disk arrays for the Xen cluster. This will give us about 3TB total for 1.5TB of redundant disk space between the two disk nodes. That will give us enough space to move all ptcb of our existing virtual machines over to the cluster with room for 30-40 more for a total of 54-64. That won't quite fill up the Xen host nodes which can probably host 80-90 virtual machines while keeping one host node as a hot spare. It will be enough room for about a year and a half worth of growth and should enable sat us to provide great up time for the hosted projects. :-) Unfortunately with this plan the Xen upgrade is waiting on the mirror upgrade which is waiting on money to buy the new disks and I have no idea when that is going to happen. series 7 Hopefully something will pull though soon, the mirrors have been needing this upgrade for nearly a year now.