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Remus Server Setup

This page contains a short description of the remus server used solely as the main storage server of the OICE.

Summary

IP address 192.168.231.218
FQDN remus.oice.uni-erlangen.de
Location OICE, Room 071.13 00 049
Chassis 19“ 4 HU Rack Mountable
CPU Intel Xeon E31275 @ 3.40GHz
RAM 8 GiB
HDDs 12x 600 GiB in RAID 6
OS ThecusOS (GNU/Linux based)

Purpose

remus functions as the main storage provider for romulus and provides a 5.9 TiB array of 12 high IOPS Seagate Cheetah HDDs. Is is connected via Gigabit Ethernet and can this transfer up to 100 MiB per second. For seamless integration into the romulus operating system, the storage is connected via an iSCSI initiator iqn.2014-2.de.uni-erlangen.oice.n16000pro:iscsi.remus.raid0 in instant allocation mode.

Administration

remus runs ThecusOS, which provides a web interface on port 80. For security reasons, connections are only allowed from romulus, which can be easily implemented by an encrypted SSH tunnel. The web interface allows for creation of new and management of existing RAID arrays and iSCSI targets.