Fed Infrastructure

Fed Infrastructure (hereinafter, #The Infra) is the software and hardware that CNMCyber Team rents to host CNM Fed Farm. The rented software and hardware consists of #. Both are parts of Opplet Infrastructure.

Provider and costs

The Provider

For the purposes of this very wikipage, the Provider refers to Contabo, which has been serving as #The Team's Internet service provider (ISP) and lessor of both #The Infra and Bureau Infrastructure since 2016. Offers from other potential providers, specifically, Contabo and DigitalOcean, have been periodically reviewed, but no one else has offered any better quality/price rate on a long-term basis.

Costs

Category	Product	Description	Hours	Price
Droplets	cnmcyber.com	s-1vcpu-2gb	720	12
	mail.opplet.net	s-1vcpu-1gb	720	6
	net.next.friendsofcnm.org	s-1vcpu-1gb	720	6

Droplet Backups cnmcyber.com (Backup Services) 5 $2.40 Droplet Snapshots For-Resize (nyc3) 4.01GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.24 Droplet Snapshots in2job.org-1422724994 (nyc2) 2.63GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.16 Droplet Snapshots ubuntu-2gb-nyc3-01-1472734205848 (nyc3) 3.08GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.19 Droplet Snapshots ubuntu-2gb-nyc3-01-1474041652791 (nyc3) 3.14GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.19 Droplet Snapshots ubuntu-2gb-nyc3-01-1474217132162 (nyc3) 3.14GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.19 Droplet Snapshots opplet.net-1496356129105 (nyc3) 10.17GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.61 Droplet Snapshots net.friendsofcnm.org-1575945112192 (nyc1) 8.29GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.50 Droplet Snapshots net.next.friendsofcnm.org-1575945436726 (fra1) 2.96GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.18 Droplet Snapshots cnmcyber.com-1605045554407 (nyc1) 48.75GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $2.93 Droplet Snapshots mail.opplet.net-1658088061265 (fra1) 6.84GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.41 Droplet Snapshots mail.opplet.net-1678393913493 (fra1) 8.16GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.49 Droplet Snapshots mail.opplet.net-1685665137259 (fra1) 8.67GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.52 Droplet Snapshots cnmcyber.com-1686411473504 (nyc1) 15.17GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.91 Droplet Snapshots mail.opplet.net-1691001073328 (fra1) 10.21GB Droplet Snapshot 720 $0.61 Droplet Snapshots cnmcyber.com-1699883876540 (nyc1) 15.50GB Droplet Snapshot 418 $0.58 Droplet Snapshots cnmcyber.com-1678393643028 (nyc1) 14.38GB Droplet Snapshot 302 $0.39 Droplet Snapshots cnmcyber.com-1669842376537 (nyc1) 8.64GB Droplet Snapshot 302 $0.23

Requirements

Due to the lower cost, #The Metal's rentals were purchased via #The Provider's auction -- https://www.hetzner.com/sb?hdd_from=500&hdd_to=1000 -- based on the following assumptions.

Number of nodes

ProxmoxVE normally requires three nodes. The third node is needed to provide quorum; however, it shall not necessarily run applications. At the same time, Ceph's non-emergency operations require three nodes at least.

Hard drives

1. The hard drive storage capacity for any of #The Nodes shall be 512Gb at least.
2. Because Ceph is selected to power #The Storage, any hard-drive of #The Metal shall be both SSD and NVMe.

Processors

1. The processor frequency for two Nodes of #The Metal shall be 32Gb at least. Processor frequency requirements to the third of #The Nodes may be lower because of ProxmoxVE's characteristics.
2. Those servers that deploys Intel Xeon E3-1275v5 processors are preferable over those servers that deploys Intel Core i7-7700 ones.

Location

At least two Nodes shall be located in the same data center. Although #The Provider does not charge for internal traffic, this circumstance increases the speed of #The Farm as a whole. If no nodes are available in the same data center, they shall be looked for in the same geographic location.

The UI

With regards to #User interfaces (UIs), administrative access to #The Metal can be accomplished through several tools and portals that #The Provider grants to CNMCyber Customer.

GI

Its graphic interface belongs to #Dashboards.

CLI

For the purposes of this very wikipage, a command line refers to a command line interface (CLI) of any of #The COTS packages installed in #The Farm. This input-output line area allows #The Sysadmins and #The Superusers to interact with #The Cluster and #The Infrastructure rather than screen-based graphical buttons, icons, or hyperlinked texts in graphic user interfaces (GUIs).

The Metal

#The Habitat is deployed on three bare-metal servers and one storage box. As the result of #Choosing the metal, #1736579, #1777698, #2109682, and #Storagebox hardware have been rented for that purpose.

1736579

1 x Dedicated Root Server "Server Auction"

• Intel Xeon E3-1275v5
• 2x SSD M.2 NVMe 512 GB
• 4x RAM 16384 MB DDR4 ECC
• NIC 1 Gbit Intel I219-LM
• Location: FSN1-DC1
• Rescue system (English)
• 1 x Primary IPv4