Cent OS Server Community Server installation phase 3

The installation team is going to meet this week to talk about the actual topology of the proposed network set up at Lutheran Social Services. Hopefully by the time of this meeting, the hard drives will be in to set up RAID in both the Cent OS box and the MS Server box. Four identical hard drives will be used in each machine that is going to be set up for RAID 5. Each hard drive should be about 37 GB so we should be looking at about 100 GB of actual available space after the server is configured and setup is complete.
There are some concerns with the deployment of the machines because there are no racks that are provided for the servers to be on. Furthermore, the amount of space available to which we are provided is limited. There is going to have to be some talk about how everything is going to come together.
This week the Operating System software should be installed at the vary least unless there are unforeseen problems that I am not aware of. I will be installing Cent OS 5 on the server that I am assigned to and this will serve as a firewall for the other Windows machine. Next week the topic for discussion will be the Configuring of RAID.

Cent OS Server Community Server installation phase 2

Currently the 6 hard drives that are needed for each server are being surveyed on ebay. To move forward with the installation these hard drives are required. Here are the requirements that are to be met on a timely basis.

- Complete installation of the OS

- DNS configuration

- RAID 5

- Javac compiler

- CGG C++ Compiler

- SSH

-These are the base functional configurations that are to be expected on the server. When these checkpoints are completed than other requirements will be looked upon throughout the course of the install.

I assume that the hard drives are going to coming in sometime next week. At that time, the installation procedure will commence.

Linux Server Deployment plan LSS, Tallahassee, FL

Lutheran Social services is in need of a Linux Server setup that the Information Technology department will be using as well. The server is going to act as a hardware firewall in front of the more unstable operating systems(WS2003). We're going to be implementing RAID 5 so we will be needing 3 drives in each rack server.
The Linux server will be used to migrate data or backup data on to the Windows server. On the Linux server we will be running Cent OS(www.centos.org). This operating system is used among many businesses. CentOS-4 is a freely distributable OS built from the source at: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS.
We have chosen Cent OS because it is such a frequently used operating system and the setup should be relitively simple compared to other Linux distributions. There is a significant amount of documentation that is available for us to use for support. Obviously we are concerned about security because this server will be used among the IT students that will be at the College of Information in the upcoming years. We plan of having a smooth install and we for see no apparent problems with having the deployment completed at the end of April of 2008.