Research and Teaching Unit Spending Plan 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18
Spending plan for the Research and Teaching unit for financial year 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18.
This spending plan assumes that a virtualisation service (KVM) will continue to be provided (sufficiently resourced and funded) outside of the Unit. The unit is already extensively virtualised, physical servers that exist are there purely because of particular performance/robustness requirements.
Physical Servers:
Host (Virtual/Host) |
Usage |
2015/16 |
2016/17 |
2017/18 |
Action |
Spec |
Priority |
£Estimate |
Action |
Spec |
Priority |
£Estimate |
Action |
Spec |
Priority |
£Estimate |
burly |
Webmark Backup and Unit Spare |
Out of Warranty (6 years old) - replace as KVM guest |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2016/17 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
cake |
Theon (Database DR Recovery Server) |
replace if necessary with hand me down for performance (to match shortbread) |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2016/17 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
fondant |
Theon - Development/Backup UI/Portal |
Out of Warranty (5 years old) - NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
KVM REPLACEMENT |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2016/17 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
flapjack |
Teaching PostgreSQL |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2016/17 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
puffin |
Shared Demos/Web Services |
Out of Warranty (9 years old) - decommission and/or replace as KVM guest |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
shortbread |
Theon (Database/In/Out Server) |
option to replace for performance improvement |
- |
Medium |
£2500 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2016/17 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
sponge |
Research PostgreSQL; Webmark DR |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2016/17 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
meringue (replaces sprinkles) |
Theon UI/Portal |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2016/17 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
victor |
Coltex |
Out of Warranty (6 years old) - replace as KVM guest |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
wasserboxer |
RAT VirtualBox (or KVM) Hosting |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
Out of Warranty - REPLACE |
- |
High |
£3500 |
NO ACTION PLANED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
All other servers are either virtual (running under KVM on either wasserboxer or one of the MPU maintained KVM hosts) or owned by research group/grant.
Compute Cluster
GPFS is being dropped at the end of 2015. Glusterfs is the intended replacement but we need to consider the hardware requirements, however likely to continue to make do with "hand me down" equipment.
Consideration of the needs of EXC and a Hadoop cluster, requires a policy/strategic decision first.
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TimColles - 02 Nov 2015
Topic revision: r2 - 02 Nov 2015 - 11:55:56 -
TimColles