On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:33 AM Sage Weil <sage@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. -- Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D. He / Him / His Senior Software Engineer Red Hat Sunnyvale, CA GPG: 19F28A586F808C2402351B93C3301A3E258DD79D