Pre-confluence:Ceph testing and development cluster
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Overview
- The *Ceph testing and development cluster* is a desktop Ceph cluster built using old lab HP Elitedesk mini PC's
- It is located in Peter's cubicle
- The cluster itself is on a private subnetwork behind one of the PC's which functions as a gateway
- The gateway is cephtest.cse.unsw.edu.au (129.94.173.173) and can be reached by SSH from CSE's trust. untrusted and server subnetworks
- The cluster nodes should be listed in /etc/hosts on cephtest. The cluster nodes have no domain component in their names
- The gateway provides access from the cluster to the big, bad world using NAT
- The cluster nodes connect to the gateway (cephtest) using a switch filched from the server room (ex: "smartswitch"). The switch has been reset to factory defaults and therefore does not operate in any sort of managed mode
Setting up a PC
- In the HP PC's BIOS reset the security to factory defaults
Installing Debian
- Use the USB boot key on top of the cluster
- Allocate 512M for EFI, 50G for root, and 1G for swap
- Tell installer to set up SSH server ONLY
- Install (and configure) unattended-upgrades, systemd-timesyncd, rsync, man-db, tcpdump lsof, strace
Network settings
| Description | Value |
|---|---|
| Configuration | Static |
| DHCP | None |
| Subnetwork | 192.168.155.0/24 |
| Gateway | 192.168.155.1 |
| DNS server(s) | 129.94.172.11 |