[cfarm-users] Future of cfarm186/cfarm187/cfarm188 at OSUOSL

[Peter Tribble]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM Baptiste Jonglez via cfarm-users <
cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As some of you may know, OSUOSL is moving to a new datacenter.
>
> All "exotic" hosts (POWER etc) will be moved, it should be transparent
> except for a bit of downtime.
>
> However, the three x86 machines (cfarm186, 187, 188) are getting quite
> old, so OSUOSL is looking at replacing them with newer hardware.  We
> probably won't be able to keep as many machines.
>
> Here are two possible options to start the discussion:
>
> - option 1: one much bigger machine, bare metal.  Which (single) OS makes
> the most sense?
>
> - option 2: several virtual machines.  Which (multiple) OS would be useful?
>

Would be handy to have one or more of the illumos distributions
(OpenIndiana, OmniOS, Tribblix) more widely available. They're not really
Solaris any more, even if they do still identify as SunOS, and as far as I
know illumos isn't represented at all. (Not an issue for those of us like
me who are developing illumos, who already have access, but for the wider
community who probably doesn't.)

Cheers,


> What do you think?
>
> Here, "big" means dual-socket Intel Xeon Platinum 8280, so 56 cores / 112
> threads, with 768 GB RAM.
>
> Baptiste
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