Sepia Lab Wiki hardware

hardware:adami

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-01T15:37:48+0000

adami{01..10} Summary The Linux Foundation purchased these in 2021 as additional Jenkins builders. Racking ticket: Hardware Specs Count Manufacturer Model Capacity Notes

hardware:apama

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-30T15:55:27+0000

apama{001,002} (RETIRED) This hardware was retired on 30JAN2020 to make room for new vossi (rex replacements after LA office closure). Summary apama001 and apama002 are two nodes in an HP SL4540 Gen8 chassis. Both nodes are running Xenial because the systems

hardware:braggi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-25T21:08:44+0000

braggi{01..22} Summary We have 22 braggi systems. The Ceph Foundation graciously purchased these late 2019/early 2020 to help reduce our reliance on ephemeral Jenkins slaves in OVH's Openstack public cloud. Hardware Specs Count

hardware:confusa

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-01-25T00:44:59+0000

confusa{01..14} Summary We have 14 confusa systems donated by Ampere. They are ARM64 Jenkins builders in the upstream jenkins.ceph.com. Racking Ticket: Hardware Specs Count Manufacturer Model Capacity

hardware:folio

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-25T19:50:08+0000

folio{01..14} Summary Red Hat purchased these in Q4CY20. I think we had increasingly been asked by customers to test or reproduce on 100% flash systems. We didn't have any until these. Users Name Use

hardware:gibba

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-24T15:29:01+0000

gibba{001..045} Summary We have 45 gibba systems. The Ceph Foundation graciously purchased these late 2019/early 2020 to add testnode capacity to teuthology runs. Racking Ticket: Hardware Specs Count Manufacturer Model

hardware:incerta

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-07-27T17:18:51+0000

incerta{01..08} Summary Intel no-model prototypes. Used primarily by Mark Nelson for Performance testing. incerta{02,03,04,08} are connected to jenkins.ceph.com. /home/jenkins-build is mounted on an NVMe drive for incerta{02..04} using Hardware Specs

hardware:infrastructure

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-21T22:05:59+0000

Infrastructure Hardware This page covers all other hardware that doesn't fit under the umbrella of testnode hardware. Spare Hardware Present as of: --- David Galloway 2022/01/18 19:29 Hardware Quantity Intel Optane P5800X 400GB PCIe cards

hardware:irvingi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-24T18:35:16+0000

irvingi{01..08} Summary We have 8 irvingi systems. All are connected to Jenkins as a builder. Hardware Specs Count Manufacturer Model Capacity Notes

hardware:ivan

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-08T15:17:15+0000

ivan{01..07} Summary The Ceph Foundation purchased 7 more servers to join the longrunningcluster. The three primary goals were: * Faster networking (25Gbps) between hosts * Large NVMe devices as OSDs * 12TB HDDs (largest up until now was 4TB) Purchasing details

hardware:limata

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-30T15:56:05+0000

limata{001..004} (RETIRED) This hardware was retired on 30JAN2020 to make room for new gear. Summary These 4 systems are on (probably permanent) loan from AMD. Ask dgalloway or dmick for our contact at AMD. limata002 and limata003 are being used as Jenkins build slaves. Do not access these hosts without checking first with Dan, Alfredo, and/or Andrew. If they get rebooted,

hardware:mako

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-05-26T20:58:05+0000

mako{01..10} Summary Mark had been increasingly hearing that customers wanted details on how Ceph performed on non-Intel systems. Red Hat purchased 10 servers with AMD processors in Q1 2021. These servers also have some donated Samsung MZ-QLB3T80 3.84TB (Model: PM983) in each. 8 in the first two nodes and 6 in the rest. 64 total.

hardware:mira

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-11T20:04:37+0000

mira Summary We have around 100 mira hosts. Some of them used to be used as vpshosts and longrunningcluster, however they are nearly 10 years old and severely behind spec-wise. We're slowly phasing them out to make room for new hardware. The systems that remain are used as testnodes. A small subset are still in the

hardware:officinalis

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-01T17:40:21+0000

Officinalis | o{01..10} Summary 10 nodes donated by Intel for Performance testing. Hardware Specs Count Manufacturer Model Capacity Notes

hardware:omani

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-19T21:36:08+0000

omani{001..010} Summary These were donated by ARM in 2017. Ask dgalloway or dmick for our contact at ARM. They are ARM64 Cavium ThunderX systems in 1U Gigabyte chassis. Racking Tickets omani{001..003}: omani{004..010}: Hardware Specs

hardware:reesi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-01T23:49:53+0000

reesi{001..006} Summary The Sepia lab has 6 storage hosts purchased December 2017 to replace the miras used in the LONGRUNNINGCLUSTER. Purchasing details Racking ticket: Hardware Specs Count Manufacturer Model

hardware:rhoda

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-30T15:56:29+0000

rhoda{001..004} (RETIRED) This hardware was retired on 30JAN2020. Summary Supermicro F517H6-FT bladecenter-type chassis. Used primarily by Mark Nelson for Performance testing. Hardware Specs Count Manufacturer Model

hardware:robsoni

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-03T00:30:15+0000

robsoni{01..05} Summary Red Hat purchased 5 servers and a 100Gb switch to be used for RGW Scale testing in Q1 2021. I just decided to put them in Sepia due to physical space constraints in Octo. Purchasing Details Purchasing ticket: Racking ticket:

hardware:senta

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-10-06T18:24:09+0000

senta{01..04} Summary We have 4 senta systems. They are custom-built SuperMicro chassis with a single PSU. Name OS Use senta01.front.sepia.ceph.com RHEL 7

hardware:smithi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-01T18:51:26+0000

smithi{001..205} Summary We have 205 smithi systems used solely as testnodes except a few used as static Jenkins slaves. Purchasing details smithi{001..128} were purchased and owned by Red Hat. (WARRANTY EXPIRED) smithi{129..205} were purchased by Sage and

hardware:sockeni

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-01-27T17:40:35+0000

sockeni{01..08} Summary These were purchased in 2025 as dev boxes. Users Name Use OS Current As Of sockeni01.front.sepia.ceph.com Laura, Kamoltat (Junior), Radoslaw

hardware:sulcata

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-20T19:06:16+0000

sulcata{01..02} Summary These were donated in October 2019 by Ampere for the purpose of building EL8 Ceph packages on ARM64. Both are Jenkins slaves. Hardware Specs Count Manufacturer Model Capacity Notes

hardware:tala

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-30T15:56:48+0000

tala{001..016} (RETIRED) This hardware was retired on 30JAN2020. Summary The tala are 16 individual 32-bit ARM (armhf/armhfp) nodes in a Calxeda Highbank 2U chassis. The nodes are running the latest firmware we've been able to locate. Calxeda is no longer a company so support and documentation are pretty much non-existent.

hardware:toko

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-02-14T00:19:44+0000

toko{01..08} Summary These are the new jenkins.ceph.com builders. They were purchased by IBM in 2025. Purchasing details PO# 4701082566 SO# 8801505154 Quote# 8601229348 Hardware Specs Count Manufacturer Model Capacity Notes

hardware:trial

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-02-12T19:17:48+0000

trial{001..200} Summary These are the new teuthology testnodes originally intended to replace the smithi machines. They were purchased by IBM in 2025. Originally, over 300 were planned but due to budget constraints, the number was reduced to 200 and we kept the smithi machines to supplement.

hardware:vossi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-10-16T14:32:01+0000

vossi{01..06} Summary We have 6 vossi machines. They are intended to be used as developer playgrounds since they have system resources far greater than the usual Developer laptop. Installed OSes Machine OS