Comment on Setting up a server for a research team. What should be in my checklist?
littleomid@feddit.org 1 week ago
Oof. Do you have any experience doing stuff like this? If you don’t, I don’t think you should take this job. If you know what you’re doing however, then I don’t understand many of your questions. What is the DHCP and firewall situation at the Uni? What is your backup solution? Why will you not have an access key after setup? If there is another team also managing it? What do they think?
In any case, I would NOT use a Mac as a server. You can run Asahi or such on it, but many of our idioms just don’t work on Mac.
If it’s from a Uni and power consumption and Noise don’t matter, I would buy (consciously) three used 1u servers and cluster two proxmox nodes. On the third I would run a proxmox backup server. If money also doesn’t matter, I would do the same, but buy new.
However, you may not even need proxmox, but the issue is that you don’t even know what they are going to use the server for. This makes it impossible for us to give you good suggestions.
bergetfew@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I was proposed to set up the server knowing that I have limited knowledge on managing stuff like this. They already have an sysadmin in the campus, but I think their setup is simple enough that they were willing to approach me. Besides I do consider myself to be experienced enough to work my way around CLI and troubleshoot issues even if I haven’t had experience with hardware like this.
I don’t think negotiating for a different computer would be possible. The main challenge would be to make best of the hardware I’m provided, with additional peripherals if needed.
I do plan on asking them the nature of the work to be done on the server, but I wouldn’t expect it to be too niche or computationally intensive since they have separate computers for that. In any case, I will relay the points highlighted in this thread to them and get a clear idea of what is needed to be arranged.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
How big is the university?