[Server-devel] uruguay server hardware

[John Watlington]

It should go in the server documentation, not networking scenario  
taxonomies.

They do not expect that the winner of the next tender will be IBM with
the same machines.

wad

On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:

> Hi John et all,
>
> i've wikified this into
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php? 
> title=Scenario_taxonomy&action=edit&section=5
>
> maybe there is some better place in the wiki to do so.
>
> Greg do you agree?. Can we organize this page better?, i'm thinking  
> we should put the specific hardware of all countries in there, to  
> have a knowledge database.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:47 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>  
> wrote:
>
> There has been some questions about what hardware Uruguay is using
> for school servers.
> They are placing a second tender right now, but the first batch of
> servers were:
>
> (An IBM x3105)
> 1.6 - 1.8 GHz AMD processor
> 2 GB RAM
> 160 GB disk (two drives, in RAID 1)
> three NICs  (one WAN, and two LAN)
>     the intent was to have a WiFi network inside the school
>    and another for outside the school, but they are currently
>    only using a single WiFi network.
> Six USB slots
> DVD-RW for backup
>
> These machines stop working at temperatures higher than 40C.
> (Crash, not nice power-off)
>
> The RAM size was chosen to better support Squid and Dansguardian.
>
> The small disk size is due to the costs of disks when bought through
> server vendors and there not being XO backup at this point.
>
> Watchdog and remote monitoring boards are recommended (but not
> currently installed.)
>
> All errors are mine,
> wad
>
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> Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
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