Bringing up dart

Hardware

• SuperMicro SC742 4U server case
• SuperMicro X9SRA motherboard
• Intel Xeon E5-2650 Sandy Bridge-EP 2.0GHz (2.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 2011 95W 8-Core Server Processor
• SUPERMICRO SNK-P0050AP4 Heatsink for Supermicro X9DR3-F Motherboard
• 32GB ECC registered RAM (4 x 8GB)
• Four 15K 150GB drives HITACHI HUS153014VL
• Corsair Neutron Series GTX CSSD-N240GBGTX-BK 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
• 3Ware 9690SA-4I SATA/SAS RAID controller

Drive Config

Hardware

Neutron SSD 240
Neutron SSD 240
Revo 60
Revo 60
3Ware 435 (4 x Hitachi 150GB in RAID 5)
WDC Black 1000

2 x Neutrons => partitioned for boot and md0 RAID 1 = operating system
2 x Revos => md1 RAID 0 = fast workspace
3ware RAID => /var and other fast data storage
Black = home, bulky data, swap

Volume groups

vg_mirror
vg_workspace
vg_raid
vg_bulk

Logical volumes

lv_root      /
lv_workspace /workspace
lv_var       /var
lv_home      /home
lv_swap      SWAP

Neutron drive: Build a broken mirror, add second drive later

parted /dev/sda
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=mirror --raid-devices=1 /dev/sda2

# put RAID1 into LVM2
pvcreate /dev/md0
pvdisplay
vgcreate vg_mirror /dev/md0

# later, set up second drive as the mirror
parted /dev/sdb
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
mdadm --add --verbose /dev/md0 /dev/sdb2
# the mirror should automatically be added to LVM since it's part of /dev/md0

Revo drive: completely managed under LVM2

pvcreate /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
vgcreate vg_workspace /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1

3Ware RAID5: completely managed under LVM2

pvcreate /dev/sd
vgcreate vg_raid

Black drive: completely managed under LVM2

pvcreate /dev/sdd
vgcreate vg_bulk /dev/sdd

parted set up one LVM partitions
mark partition type as 8e = LVM
pg /dev/sd??

CentOS install

Install minimal system from DVD

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
vi /etc/resolv.conf
service network restart
yum -y install emacs
yum -y install openssh-clients
yum -y install gcc unzip
yum -y install hdparm
yum -y install httpd
yum update
reboot

Basic software install

Install PostGIS 2.0