On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:33 AM Sage Weil
<sage(a)newdream.net> wrote:
Hi all,
The foundation has some money to spend on hardware. Given a budget of
~$200k, what would we buy?
I see two main options:
- More smithi-class machines. We would presumably take a closer look at
the available machines to make a reasonable choice, since it's been a few
years now... it might make sense to buy something a bit faster. I think
ideally, though, they would go into the same machine pool/class, since
that tends to lead to better overall utilization of the hardware.
- Build machines. If we buy more beefy boxes, we could reduce our
reliance on OVH cloud instances, which are averaging around $15k/month.
It'll be a larger initial outlay, but the ongoing cost would come down
(particularly since we're fortunate enough to have essentially free
datacenter space).
I'd also like to suggest developer build machines. Maybe this means
re-provisioning existing hardware. I don't think we need
state-of-the-art. The senta boxes are frequently out-of-space and
packages get changed up all the time by builds of
luminous/mimic/nautilus. I'd really like to see us with a private VM
cloud (openstack?) where we could use hardware more effectively and
not interfere with others' workspaces.
For dev machines, we should be able to get some new ones to replace the
aging rex etc. in LA. I'll follow up with David about that.
on the existing senta, using the HDD (/slow) for build/{dev,out}
directories would help the space problem.