Category Archives: Hardware

Building a dark archive

Posted on 22.3.2013 by Mikko Lampi

One of the primary goals in our project is to build a dark archive. The motivation for this is the preservation of digital material. A dark archive is a repository which sole purpose is to preserve the data, not to … Continue reading →

Posted in Archive system, Daitss, Dark archive, Hardware | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Lessons Learned from OSA Platform

Posted on 12.12.2012 by Mikko Lampi

It has been quite a while since the last post. We have been busy testing and configuring the server platform and doing various groundwork for the project. But there has been good progress. We have a new developer starting soon … Continue reading →

Posted in Hardware, Linux, Storage | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Blade servers and Ubuntu, part 2

Posted on 19.11.2012 by Mikko Lampi

Last week I wrote about our experiences on setting up a diskless Ubuntu installation into our blade server environment. There were some unsolved issues which we managed to resolve and finally got Ubuntu to boot. In this post, I’m going … Continue reading →

Posted in Hardware, Linux, Storage | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Experiences on the blade servers and Ubuntu

Posted on 12.11.2012 by Mikko Lampi

A couple of weeks ago, I introduced the server environment we’re going to build for the project. Today I’m going to get into the details and share some experiences. We purchased four IBM HS23E (Type 8038) blade servers and installed them … Continue reading →

Posted in Hardware, Linux, Storage, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments