Hardware Meeting Notes January 17, 2006
Meeting Notes, January 17, 2006
Recording our meetings >>
Sandra will record all our meeting and create an mp3 file for each.
Find these recordings at http://podcast.ucdavis.edu/podcastapp/myucd_search.php?series=sakai_hw .
Status of Opteron servers >>
? Sakai2 (Stubing) is set up but now and Kirk will test it. Kirk will keep track of his test scenario. Kirk plans to use the Sakai2 for Friday's Faculty mentoring.
? Isaac finally arrived 1/4/06 and will be cloned hopefully soon. This is the devel app server.
? Bricker, the database server. Geeta completed the Oracle installation for the Demo / pilot instance and turned it over to the application programmers . Bricker will also house the development database instance. Geeta will create a devel database instance soon. Geeta will work with Brian Donnelly on this. We're anxious to test the mviews against Banner test if possible on Bricker. Kirk has promised the Winter faculty that they will have this automated course and user environment sometime during the Winter pilot.
Memory purchases >>
? Sandra completed the purchase request for memory for all the Opteron servers. The PR is now with Purchasing.
Status of RAC for the Sakai database environment >>
? There was no update on the RAC.
Next steps for hardware set up >>
? Kirk will test Sakai2 and use it for the faculty mentoring session.
? Sandra will obtain a sign off from Kirk and Tom on the Sakai2 set up.
? Sandra will work with Dana Drennan for a Service Level Agreement for the Sakai project.
? For now we are postponing the decision to purchase production hardware.