Recently, I did some rough math and decided that instead of spending (a lot of) money with AWS, Rackspace or others, it was worthwhile to just get a second colo facility. I frankly want a more redundant solution than is in place now.
One of the other considerations is that I want something local-ish so the new facility will be in the bay area, California, about a 25 min drive from home. I realized most server hardware review sites do not run infrastructure in datacenters, so it is time to change that trend. We will now be able to put hardware into a datacenter during reviews.
Unlike last time where we went to Las Vegas, snapped a few pics, did a bit of configuration and everything was ready to go, we are doing everything this time.
Planning out the series on this:
Part 1: The decision to expand colocation
Part 2: Picking where for the second site
Part 2: Networking and Security (may not be 100% detailed on everything we are doing)
Part 3: Servers and Storage
Part 4: The new environment (still testing KVM v. Proxmox v. Docker v. ?)
Part 5: Linking sites for redundancy
Part 6: Performance findings
Part 7: Tracking everything
Part 8: The new STH datacenter lab
Part 9: Monitoring
Anything I missed? Other topics?
On part 4, I am really struggling. I am fairly certain the answer is NOT Hyper-V. But what exactly it will be in the next generation I am not positive.
Also if anyone is looking for a dedicated server (or a few) at a good price let me know. I may start selling off some spare capacity in both datacenters since it would be really nice to do something with the capacity. This is going to be done more on a "let me know what you need and I can see what I can do" basis. Xeon D, C2750, E5's, nice SSDs, you name it we have access to now.
One of the other considerations is that I want something local-ish so the new facility will be in the bay area, California, about a 25 min drive from home. I realized most server hardware review sites do not run infrastructure in datacenters, so it is time to change that trend. We will now be able to put hardware into a datacenter during reviews.
Unlike last time where we went to Las Vegas, snapped a few pics, did a bit of configuration and everything was ready to go, we are doing everything this time.
Planning out the series on this:
Part 1: The decision to expand colocation
Part 2: Picking where for the second site
Part 2: Networking and Security (may not be 100% detailed on everything we are doing)
Part 3: Servers and Storage
Part 4: The new environment (still testing KVM v. Proxmox v. Docker v. ?)
Part 5: Linking sites for redundancy
Part 6: Performance findings
Part 7: Tracking everything
Part 8: The new STH datacenter lab
Part 9: Monitoring
Anything I missed? Other topics?
On part 4, I am really struggling. I am fairly certain the answer is NOT Hyper-V. But what exactly it will be in the next generation I am not positive.
Also if anyone is looking for a dedicated server (or a few) at a good price let me know. I may start selling off some spare capacity in both datacenters since it would be really nice to do something with the capacity. This is going to be done more on a "let me know what you need and I can see what I can do" basis. Xeon D, C2750, E5's, nice SSDs, you name it we have access to now.
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