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KitsNet Operations:Planning:Projects

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Priority Tier New Server Based on Activity Imperatives Notes Target Quarter Actual Start Actual End
1 N/A Wort Upgrade to RL 9
  • Hypervisor at RL 9 could improve guest RL 9 performance
  • Hypervisor gets all patches
  • MegaRAID disks not discoverable by Zabbix-Aget2 due to known bug in old version. Cannot upgrade agent until Zabbix server is upgraded.
24q4.1 25q1 25q1
9 N/A Wort CPU upgrade to 5800X
  • Swap 3600X to Kaliber OR
  • Take Lafite's CPU after upgrading it with 5800X3D
24q4.9 24q4 25q1
4 Zaya Zoco Upgrade to RL 9

and Zabbix 7.0 LTS

25q2.1 25.q1 25.q2
5 Zuidam Zaya Upgrade to RL 10

and Zabbix 8.0 LTS

26q3.1
9 Delamain Quadsec Upgrade to RL 10
  • vnstat and glances not yet available
  • installed v7 zabbix-agent2 from rehl 9 release
25q3.2 25q2 25q2
2 Barcardi Hendrick Upgrade to RL 9
  • Samba Factory should be on RL 9 to build Samba for RL9 systems
24q4.2 24q3 24q4
2 Galliano Chivas Upgrade to RL 9 and MediaWiki 1.39.12 LTS 25q1.2 25q1 25q2
2 Frangelico Camus Upgrade to RL 9
  • After Hendrick. At same time as Cristal
Samba upgrade entirely separate, though work included installing a slightly higher version of Samba and joining to the doman. 24q4.2 24q3 24q4
2 Emperador Cristal Upgrade to RL 9
  • After Hendrick. At same time as Camus
Samba upgrade entirely separate 24q4.2 24q3 25q1
3 Frangelico Camus Upgrade to latest Samba
  • Fix Mac password changing issue (hopefully)
*Need to create Protected Users security group (https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.17.0.html) 25q1.2 25q1 25q1
3 Emperador Cristal Upgrade to latest Samba
  • Fix Mac password changing issue (hopefully)
25q1.2 25q1 25q1
3 Cinzano Ballantine Upgrade to RL 9 and eFa 5.0 25q1.3 25q1 25q2
3 Tito Campari Upgrade to RL 9 and latest Samba
  • SSO access is via Samba itself, including automatic directory creation
25q2.3 25q1 25q1
3 Hennessy Martell Upgrade to RL 9 and latest Samba
  • Frequent error messages regarding chdir actions appear with execution of Windows backup operations. Supposed to be addressed with newer Samba version.
  • Setup as an AD member server along with NFS exports
  • VM NIC needs be built over kvm-bkup bridge
25q2.3 25q1 25q1
3 Sinfire Fireball Upgrade to RL 9 and latest Samba Did get Emby upgrade as well 25q2.3 25q1 25q1
4 Empress Okeefe Upgrade to RL 10 ConsoleWorks server v5.6-4u0 does not really support Rocky LInux 10. Some hacking of TDI scripts was required. 25q2,z 25q2 25q2
4 Maddog ripple Upgrade to RL 9 simh build/run server for VAX 25q2.4 25q2 25q2
2 Radix Upgrade to OpenWrt 24.10 stable version
  • Currently OpenWrt 22.03.05 stable version
Updated to 24.1.2 25q4.2 25q3 25q4
9 DONQ decommission AlphaServer
  • VSI shutdown hobbyist program for Alpha and HP licenses won't run on VSI OpenVMS for Alpha
Could consider VAX-only VAXcluster

Dealt with license issue

24q4.z 24q4 24q4
6 Establish docker farm
  • Could recast most servers as Docker containers
ChatGPT design and deployment plan built 26q1.6
5 HA NAS storage for Docker farm
  • Needed as portable HA storage solution for container instances
ChatGPT design and deployment plan built based on one set of vdisks on KVM host being presented by one of two NFS servers with coordinated failover. This will support continuous availability so as to support server maintenance operations, without doubling storage requirements. 26q1.5
3 wort Storage expansion
  • Only about 1 TB remains available and Docker farm will need at least that much
  • T0 pool is too small at 512MB as most has been used
Expansion of T0 to 2TB NVMe likely to cost about $170 with Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB . T1 expansion will aim for a matched pair of 4TB Seagate drives from same family as current (ST4000NM0024). 26q1.3
4 wort Storage expansion cabinet
  • Current plans call for using up all available drive slots but one
  • Design accounted for cabinet based on Jonsbo N4 - need to buy this before product is retired
Current wort will need added:
  • Dual Mini SAS SFF-8088 to SAS36P SFF-8087 Adapter in PCI Bracket
  • SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 internal SAS cables (2)

External cables

  • SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 external SAS cables (2)

The new cabinet will be the Jonsbo N4 outfitted with:

  • Dual Mini SAS SFF-8088 to SAS36P SFF-8087 Adapter in PCI Bracket
  • Mini SAS to 4 SATA Cable, 36 Pin SFF 8087 Host/Controller to 7 Pin SATA Target/Backplane connection
  • modest power supply
26q2.4
1 Lafite Lafite Windows 11
  • Windows 10 EOL October 2025
Need to upgrade before Kaliber so I can support Mandy 24q2.1 24q4 24q4
2 N/A Kaliber Windows 11
  • Windows 10 EOL October 2025
Upgrade storage to 1TB NVMe prior to upgrade

Profiles hosted off of C: drive blocked upgrade Still need to reinstall RGB utilities

25q2.2 25q1 25q3
2 N/A Sriracha Windows 11
  • Windows 10 EOL October 2025
Might move this up or down 25q2.2 25q4 25q4
1 N/A Wort New chasis
  • new case will allow for 12 drives without need for second case
  • Jonsbo n5 chasis
  • RAID expander card
  • For T3b volume
    • add fourth disk
    • convert Raid 5 to RAID 10
  • Cannot start unitl n5 case delivered. Scheduled for 3rd week of January 2025
25q1.1 25q1 25q1
1 N/A Lafite Replumb loop
  • add drain port and reroute piping for better circulation through reservoir
24q4.1 25q1 25q1
2 Absolut Standalone CAPSMAN
  • Will allow for removal of the Wireless package from Courvoisier and free up storage space
  • Upcoming RouterOS updates my not fit without this relief
New deployment plan developed with ChatGPT 26q1.2 25q3
5 Mikrotik VPN
  • Vendor supported VPN solution for full remote access. Improvement over SSH and will allow iSO devices full KitsNet access remotely.
Control plane on CHR, data plane on Courvoisier 26q2.5
4 Radix Internal IPv6 support
  • The LAN simply uses automatic configuration at Layer 2. Before we can implement external support for IPv6, IPv6 on the LAN needs to be cleaned up and fully implemented.
Need to setup a full internal support of IPv6 router announcements, explicit DHCP support of the ULA and delegated prefix, DUID (???) and more. This will also include implementation of RA Guard to block the Apple TV and HomePod Mini to advertising themselves as IPv6 routers. I have a deployment design and a multi-stage implementation plan supplied by ChatGPT. 26q1.4
5 Radix External IPv6 support
  • Implement NAT66 and DDNS updates so that KitsNet services may be addressed vi IPV4 or IPv6.
Dependant upon Internal IPv6 support 26q2.5