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== Info ==
Bender and [[Machine/papert | Papert]] are two twin blade servers donated to Sugar Labs in 2021.
Bender is our primary KVM host, while Papert is a hot standby and [[Service/backup|backup]] machine.
== Hostnames ==
== Hostnames ==
* bender.sugarlabs.org
* papert.sugarlabs.org
== Hardware ==
== Hardware ==
* Crappy minitower
* HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 1RU server
* Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz
** Dual socket, current configuration has one CPU
* 4GB RAM
* [https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/199342/intel-xeon-gold-5218r-processor-27-5m-cache-2-10-ghz.html Xeon Gold 5218R]
* 2x1TB RAID1, 2x320GB RAID1
** 20 cores/40 threads
* Fedora 11 x86_64
** 2.1GHz base frequency, 4.0GHz max turbo frequency
** 27.5MB of cache
* 64GB RAM
* 2TB NVMe SSD
[[Image:BenderRacked.jpg|thumb|320px]]
== Admins ==
== Admins ==
* [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]], _bernie on #sugar Freenode
* [[User:MrBIOS|Alex Perez]], MrBIOS on #sugar Libera.chat IRC network
* [[User:sascha_silbe|sascha_silbe]] (silbe on #sugar Freenode)
* [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]], @bernie:matrix.org on Sugar Systems
* Stefano Fedrigo <aleph AT develer.com>, sometimes _aleph on Freenode (local access, office hours CET)
== Hosting ==
[[Image:SonicColo.jpg|thumb|320px]]
Hosted by Sonic in Santa Rosa CA
== Network configuration ==
Network configuration is managed via [https://netplan.io/ netplan]. To modify, do:
vi /etc/netplan/bender.yaml
netplan generate
netplan apply
=== IPv4 ===
Bender and Papert are globally accessible through a public, static IPv4 address
Sonic assigned a /28 network to Sugar Labs. IP assignments are managed in our DNS configuration. Search for "Sonic IP pool" in <code>masters/sugarlabs.org.zone</code>.
* Usable IPv4 addresses: 192.184.220.210 ~ 192.184.220.222 (13 addresses)
* Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.240
* Default Gateway: 192.184.220.209
* DNS: 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
=== IPv6 ===
IPv6 configuration is a bit weird.
* Public block: 2001:5a8:601:f::/64
* Sonic gateway: 2001:5a8:5:3a::15:0/127
* Transport IP: 2001:5a8:5:3a::15:1/127
The gateway is configured to route all traffic for our netblock to the transport IP, which is currently assigned to bender.
=== Bridges ===
The br0 bridge is created at startup and shared with the virtual machines hosted on Bender. It gives the VMs unfiltered access to the external network. There's no DHCP, all machines must define a static IP configuration, taking care not to stomp onto each other.
There is also a virbr0 bridge created by libvirt on startup from <code>/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml</code>. This is a NAT interface and is not meant for VMs directly serving on the Internet.
Guests simply need to be configured to accept IPv6 routing advertisements. The DNS must be assigned manually.
== Virtualization ==
Virtual machines are KVM guests managed with libvirt.
=== Storage ===
All virtual disks come from a pool backed by the main LVM VG:
virsh # pool-define-as nvme-pool logical --source-name nvme-pool
Pool nvme-pool defined
virsh # pool-start nvme-pool
Pool nvme-pool started
virsh # pool-autostart nvme-pool
Pool nvme-pool marked as autostarted
virsh # pool-info nvme-pool
Name: nvme-pool
UUID: 5812819f-b8bf-484e-98fb-2e100fe83df2
State: running
Persistent: yes
Autostart: yes
Capacity: 1.64 TiB
Allocation: 250.00 GiB
Available: 1.40 TiB
Disks assigned to VMs will appear here:
virsh # vol-list nvme-pool
Name Path
-----------------------------------------
aslo1-root /dev/nvme-pool/aslo1-root
aslo1-srv /dev/nvme-pool/aslo1-srv
backup /dev/nvme-pool/backup
Disks can be created, listed and deleted using the vol-* commands:
virsh # vol-create-as nvme-pool testvm-root 20G
Vol testvm-root created
virsh # vol-info testvm-root --pool nvme-pool
Name: testvm-root
Type: block
Capacity: 20.00 GiB
Allocation: 20.00 GiB
virsh # vol-delete testvm-root --pool nvme-pool
Vol testvm-root deleted
'''NOTE''': avoid allocating large VM volumes as image file within the host's root filesystem, as they're slow and hard to manage. It's ok to use images for test VMs.