{{{
"Magikarp is a fish Pokémon with large, heavy reddish-orange scales" - [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Magikarp_(Pok%C3%A9mon)]]
UCC has a theme for naming servers in the machine room after sea creatures starting with M. I decided to have a bit of fun with this and name the two HP servers after Pokemon that are also sea creatures starting with M.
}}}

== How/where the machine was obtained ==
Magikarp was donated by Dylan Hicks [333] along with [[Mudkip]] to UCC on 8/07/2019, and a rail kit was later purchased and donated on 5/08/2019.

== History prior to arriving to UCC ==
This machine was previously used as a VM host at a remote minesite at a gold mining company, and was running VMWare ESXi from an SD card, with a separate SAN used for VM storage.
As such, there is still some red dust inside, so it probably needs a good clean with some compressed air.

== UCC machine history ==
 * 08/07/2019: Donated and installed in the machine room using spare shelf rails and bolts from "Screw DB"
 * 27/07/2019: A pair of spare 300GB 15kRPM IBM disks from the machine room were added and configured with RAID 1 (via Linux MD, not the licencing-laden HP RAID controller)
 * 05/08/2019: Re-racked with a proper rail kit
 * ??/??/2019: RAM between [[Magikarp]] and [[Mudkip]] redistributed so they both have 128GiB each
 * 25/11/2019: Magikarp finally added to our Proxmox cluster, albeit with SSH key issues, which was preventing VM migrations among other things
 * 23/01/2020: SSH keys finally fixed, making Magikarp now useful on the cluster
 * 03/02/2020: James [MPT] installed 10Gbps fibre between Magikarp and [[Walnut]] (Ubiquiti switch), so it can talk faster to the other VM hosts
 * 08/02/2020: Removed the 280GB Intel Optane from the unused Cisco UCS server in the machine room, added it to Magikarp, and configured it as a writeback cache for the RAID 1 array. Yay ~1GB/s writes!
 * 17/04/2020: James [MPT] replaced the faulty fans in Magikarp and [[Mudkip]] with new ones
 * 18/04/2020: Live-migrated the minecraft2019 VM (with local storage) to Magikarp with no downtime, so it could get some sweet sweet disk IO!
 * 21/04/2020: Successful mass exodus of most of [[Maltair]]'s VMs across to Magikarp via live-migration (that 10Gbps link paid off), because Dylan [333] broke [[Maltair]] (temporarily). Magikarp has proven itself!

== Current machine tasks ==
 * Hosts VMs on our VM cluster ("atlantic")
 * Particularly useful for hosting VMs that need a lot of disk IO but not a crazy amount of space

== Current software configuration ==
 * Running Proxmox Virtualisation Environment 6.4 (as of 06/03/2024), which under the hood consists of Debian, KVM, Qemu, LXC and a bunch of other FOSS projects

== Current hardware configuration ==
 * HP Proliant DL360p Gen8 1RU server
 * Dual CPU sockets, each with a 8C/16T 2.9GHz Intel Xeon E5-2690 (gen 1)
 * 128GiB of DDR3 ECC RDIMMs for RAM (8GiB per stick)
 * Quad-port Intel 82580 Gigabit Ethernet
 * Dual port Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810 10Gigabit Ethernet
 * Dual port FibreChannel
 * 32GB SD card for Proxmox itself to boot/run off
 * Two 300GB 15kRPM IBM ST9300653SS SAS disks in a RAID 1 array using Linux MD for RAID
 * 280GB Intel Optane SSD as a writeback cache for the RAID array, using LVM and dm_cache
 * Remote management via HP iLO 4 (with HTML5 KVM console). See [[sftp://ssh.ucc.asn.au/home/wheel/docs/RemoteManagement.org]] for details

== Future plans for the machine ==
 * To hopefully not have any more fans fail!
 * To keep hosting VMs, with a focus on Minecraft VMs that like disk IO for world generation, and general VM hosting

== Thanks to: ==
 * Dylan Hicks [333] for donating Magikarp and the rails, and purchasing replacement fans (which UCC reimbursed) ...it feels weird writing a wiki page thanking myself!
 * James Arcus [MPT] for getting the 10Gbps fibre installed, playing musical fans between Magikarp and [[Mudkip]] to keep Magikarp going at [[Mudkip]]'s expense (several times over the course of several months), and for installing the new fans when they arrived whilst Cameron Hall was in COVID-19 lockdown!
 * The rest of Wheel for letting me use the Optane in Magikarp <3
 * [[Mudkip]] for being a temporary source of spare fans, whilst it wasn't really being used

== Related Sites ==
 * [[https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/km/product/5194968/Product#t=All&sort=relevancy&numberOfResults=25]]

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