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XMission Personal Staff Colo Servers

I have an overall set of rough ideas from IT, Computer Science, and Mathematics that I would like to examine and test, with access to computer hardware with space and bandwidth.

Physical Servers

Explanation

Hardware was inherited from previous job to keep and maintain backups. I utilized Solaris 11 to build a central storage device and these servers were intended to in some way keep zfs snapshot streams offsite. I tested several software stacks and while doing so kept a Solaris 11 VM to send the snapshot streams to, but after a couple of snafu's I decided to solidify the backup scheme. So two of the machines are dedicated to just hosting offsite backups for Inwest now.

Functions I Would Like It To Serve

Communication

• Email
• Blog
• Wiki
• Chat
• Software Repositories

IT Research Platform

• Server Testing
  • Virtualization
  • Web Serving
  • Database
  • Standard Web Applications
  • Clustering
  • Configuration Management
  • Security

Functions->Services

This is currently how I have the functions I would like it to serve divided and grouped, or how I like to colorfully put it: Precipitated into this set containment hierarchy to test various functions and ideas.

VM Hypervisor

After testing many hypervisors I am currently settled on SmartOS running on soldier06.

Directory

• DNS
• LDAP
• Kerberos

Web

• Web Server
• Database Server

Chat

• IRC Client
• IM Client

File Storage

• SFTP
• NFS
• SMB
• WebDav

Services->VM/Containers

Currently using SmartOS as Hypervisor