CSC/HIP CMS dCache and NDGF alice dCache

Networking
- 100 Gbits/s aka 12GB/s connection
- It maxed out so funet people upgraded trunk to 400Gbits/s for other services to work also
- watching the traffic and optimizing with migration move commands -> fast cache/hot files?

Hardware

  HIP CMS dCache
  2 hypervisors PowerEdge R6515 hosting virtual machines
  8 PowerEdge R740xd2

  NDGF alice pools
  5 PowerEdge R740xd2

- Two Dell PowerEdge R6515 15th generation hypervisors are used as a platform for dCache headnodes and other virtual machines. Hypervisors have two 2TB SSDs configured as raid 1 mirror.

- Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 14th generation servers with 220 GB SSD and 26 20TB spinning discs and PERC H740P mini monolithic RAID controllers are configured as 24 disk + 2 spare RAID6 storage and used as dCache pools. 

- Hardware moving to another room, downtime
- There is funding for new storage hardware, i've heard

Software

- HIP CMS dCache has some VMs rhel 10
- RHEL 10 has quantum safe crypto or similar -> CA files?