There are two PowerEdge 2600's donated by Juan Valadez. They are dual 32-bit Xeon 2.4GHz. One came with 4G RAM and the other with 2GB. An additional 2GB of RAM was put into the latter. Each has x3 36GB HDD in a RAID-0 configuration for a total of 109GB.
Virtualization. The CPUs do not have extensions supporting hypervisors such as KVM, which would have been cool to administer head-less through web-based convirt2. Instead, we will try install CentOS or Fedora and get VirtualBox or VMWare Server. These can also be administered over a web interface. This way each member can manager their VMs at any time and not wait in line.
ISO storage. We could store ISO images and netinstall images on either server. In the case of netinstall images, we'd want to run a tftp server on one or both for PXE booting either VMs or physical boxes over the network.
A periphery purpose for these servers is a capture the flag security contest. We'd be able to isolate the servers from the external network and have the attackers and attacked boxes virtualized on both servers.
Each server has only one NIC. For access, here are a couple options (add yours):
Since each server is 32-bit, only 32-bit VM guests can be created. Each server also has 4GB RAM. This should be enough to have 3-7 VMs running at the same time on each server for a total of 6-14 VMs. Try to limit your RAM size to 512MB if other VMs are running on the same server as yours.
The servers are name ying and yang. Usernames are the same as the server names. Currently, ying has 4GB RAM and 109GB HDD space while yang has 2GB RAM and 72GB HDD space. Both have Ubunutu 10.10 with VirtualBox installed. Yang also has DOSbox installed to run an old DOS version of Microsoft Word and a few games from http://abandonia.com
