Latest revision as of 19:46, 17 July 2024

Downscaling

Participants
Skills	Infrastructure
Status	Planning
Niche	Hardware
Purpose	Saving energy and money
Tool	No
Location
Cost
Tool category

Downscaling

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The space currently uses a lot of old, power hungry hardware and could be optimised by the addition of a small amount of money to refresh the infrastructure. This page stands to collect the ideas on how and what to do with performing this task.

Stuff that does not power down

Ticker bar
Ticker zaal 1 door
Ticker zaal 1 plants
All phones except Zaal 1 and Kitchen
Zaal 2 (not smart)

Todo

Lights

Sonoffs for TL lights Zaal 1 TL lights, zaal 2 TL lights, toilets lights, gamerhok lights and TV, aanrecht lights.

Heating

Pipe isolation on places that do not need heating.

Other

Shutdown script for Arcade and Studio PC's.

Add body movement sensors for various Jarvis switches.

Solar power

Window Isolation

Radiator automation

Done or almost done

OpenTherm Gateway with automations on Jarvis.

A whole bunch of switches for Jarvis.

Shutdown script for HarkTV.

Getting under utilized devices off the grid.

Fans for radiators to move heat around.

Hatch in front of the kitchen fan to prevent cold air coming in.

Monitoring on Grafana with Power meter to view great progress.

Proxmox Servers

These systems take a lot of power (3 pieces of about 200-400W a piece) (confusion , precious , anotheroneikeepforgetting )

Usage

We run a copious amount of virtual machines on our Proxmox cluster

Replacement

Slab has been replaced by SlabPi

All TL lights have been replaced with LED.

Not sure if this is totally viable, but :

http://www.asrock.nl/mb/Intel/J4205-ITX/index.us.asp

This quadcore CPU has full VT extensions, but is just 10W TDP! For 99% of our VMs, this is probably already a sufficient host. Motherboard has a max of 16GB (in 2x SODIMM DDR3 1866mhz)

Questions

How is the reallife performance?

Netapp

The Netapp storage has been identified as a power consuming piece of hardware. It is also FAILING STEADILY so this is important to upgrade!

Usage

This machine is primarily used for NFS mounts across the infrastructure.

Replacement

The0 has a 3u case/machine ~~with 12 disk hardware RAID controller~~ (controller has broken ports) with brackets but without disks in it that might make a good replacement.
We could construct a JBOD and do software RAID - using the an ASROCK c2750d4i is a good starting point but it is kind of expensive.
Maybe 3 old atom boxen with each 4 disks and something like ceph might also work?
Or buy a new motherboard and use zaryas 4 port Areca controller

http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I

Printer-desktop

Could be replaced with something like Octopi

Update; 
this is mostly done atm, thanks to Pokon

Questions

Are we going to keep the touch screen?
How much power does the touch screen take? And in stand-by?
What are we going to do with the touch screen?

Migrating VMs

As many VMs currently running at the space infrastructure do not really need to be hosted at the space, we could migrate many of them away.

Zarya offered to host them in his broomclosetserver (actually not at his home, but at a soccerclub) , we could also ask site4u/bit if we could get some Units 19" space in Ede.

We started making a list of the currently running VMs and noting if they are needed and for what ;

https://pad.puscii.nl/p/vms

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+{{Project
+|Name=Downscaling
+|Skills=Infrastructure
+|Status=Planning
+|Niche=Hardware
+|Purpose=Saving energy and money
+|Picture=Maximize-Efficiency.jpg
+|Tool=No
+}}
 The space currently uses a lot of old, power hungry hardware and could be optimised by the addition of a small amount of money to refresh the infrastructure. This page stands to collect the ideas on how and what to do with performing this task.
-= Netapp=
+= Stuff that does not power down =
+* Ticker bar
+* Ticker zaal 1 door
+* Ticker zaal 1 plants
+* All phones except Zaal 1 and Kitchen
+* Zaal 2 (not smart)
+= Todo =
+=== Lights ===
+Sonoffs for TL lights Zaal 1 TL lights, zaal 2 TL lights, toilets lights, gamerhok lights and TV, aanrecht lights.
+=== Heating ===
+Pipe isolation on places that do not need heating.
+===Other===
+Shutdown script for Arcade and Studio PC's.
+Add body movement sensors for various [[Jarvis]] switches.
+[[Solar power]]
+[[Window Isolation]]
+[[Radiator automation]]
+= Done or almost done =
+[[OpenTherm Gateway]] with automations on [[Jarvis]].
+A whole bunch of switches for [[Jarvis]].
+Shutdown script for [[HarkTV]].
+Getting under utilized devices off the grid.
+Fans for radiators to move heat around.
+Hatch in front of the kitchen fan to prevent cold air coming in.
+Monitoring on [[Grafana]] with [[Power meter]] to view great progress.
+== Proxmox Servers ==
+These systems take a lot of power (3 pieces of about 200-400W a piece)  (confusion , precious , anotheroneikeepforgetting )
+=== Usage ===
+We run a copious amount of virtual machines on our [[Proxmox]] cluster
+=== Replacement ===
+[[Slab]] has been replaced by [[SlabPi]]
+All TL lights have been replaced with LED.
+Not sure if this is totally viable, but :
+* http://www.asrock.nl/mb/Intel/J4205-ITX/index.us.asp
+This quadcore CPU has full VT extensions, but is just 10W TDP! For 99% of our VMs, this is probably already a sufficient host. Motherboard has a max of 16GB (in 2x SODIMM DDR3 1866mhz)
+=== Questions ===
+* How is the reallife performance?
+== Netapp==
 The Netapp storage has been identified as a power consuming piece of hardware. It is also FAILING STEADILY so this is important to upgrade!
-== Usage ==
+=== Usage ===
 This machine is primarily used for NFS mounts across the infrastructure.
-== Replacement ==
+=== Replacement ===
 * The0 has a [[12 Disk Storage Machine|3u case/machine]] <s>with 12 disk hardware RAID controller</s> (controller has broken ports) with brackets but without disks in it that might make a good replacement.
 * We could construct a JBOD and do software RAID - using the an ASROCK c2750d4i is a good starting point but it is kind of expensive.
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 * Or buy a new motherboard and use zaryas 4 port Areca controller
-== Questions ==
+* http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I
-*What type of FS do we want? (ext4, XFS, ZFS)
-* Can we do HA somehow? (ceph?)
+== [[Printer-desktop]] ==
-* What OS?
+Could be replaced with something like [[Octopi]]
+ Update;
+ this is mostly done atm, thanks to Pokon
+=== Questions ===
+* Are we going to keep the touch screen?
+* How much power does the touch screen take? And in stand-by?
+* What are we going to do with the touch screen?
+== Migrating VMs ==
+As many VMs currently running at the space infrastructure do not really need to be hosted at the space, we could migrate many of them away.
+Zarya offered to host them in his broomclosetserver (actually not at his home, but at a soccerclub) , we could also ask site4u/bit if we could get some Units 19" space in Ede.
+We started making a list of the currently running VMs and noting if they are needed and for what ;
+* https://pad.puscii.nl/p/vms