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TECT is a large server powering many stenoweb services, as well as local infrastructure and services for Cory's home network. It currently has a 2.4GHz Xeon E5620 processor, 16 gigabytes of memory, and 12TB of usable storage. It was purchased in January, 2011 with four gigabytes of memory and a single 250GB disk for approximately $1300.

When it was new and for the first year or two of its life, TECT ran VMWare ESXi 4 and then 5. It hosted both server and desktop operating systems, and was used for various tasks. There was even a time when it hosted a Windows Server 2008 R2 server with Active Directory and file services enabled, a Solaris 10 server with the SunRay services and the uttsc Terminal Services client, and a Windows 7 desktop, which at the time, I found to be faster than flatdell.

The old Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard installation has been converted to a VM and TECT now runs Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Hyper-V role. Backups are to external USB hard disks using Veeam Backup & Recovery.

The next steps for TECT at the exact moment are largely:

• Develop the backup system. (Increase capacity, robustness, performance)
• move core infrastructure away from SBS 2011 Standard to role-separated virtual machines (DC/file/sharepoint/exchange)
• As part of splitting roles to different VMs, move the network from the ISP-provided DSL modem-gateway, install an Untangle router for use as a firewall and general security appliance, to increase overall network security stance.

• wiki:TECT_Backups
• wiki:Stenoweb_Domain_GPOs

Continued from previous pages on this topic.

• 2021-03-25: the new core virtualization server Nachibes (II) has been set up. Several of the core services virtual machines will move to this new system, allowing the TECT hardware (currently named “sodor”) to be cleaned out and reused for other tasks and/or lower priority virtual machines

If something in this machine isn't filled in, I have either failed to update my inventory or the machine is currently inactive or has not been provisioned. Some of the purpose of this list is to have a handy source of new vm hostnames.