IT Lab

The IT lab allows testing of various solutions and services across different platforms.

Servers
SunOS 5.10	SunOS 5.8	Windows 2003	Windows 2008	Irix 6.5	Ubuntu
DHCP Bind DNS Sendmail NFS-Samba Apache 2.2 ColdFusion MX7	Oracle 9i CUPS	Active Directory IIS 6 Safecom Equitrac Office MPI Blue Server	Active Directory DHCP DNS SQL Server 2008 Exchange 2007 IIS 7	NFS TFTP CUPS	NFS-Samba CUPS mySQL 5
Clients
Windows 7	Windows Vista	Windows XP	Mac OS X	Linux

Plateforms

The lab needs to be able to provide many different platforms.
Virtualisation is used as much as possible to save hardware and energy. It uses VmWare ESXi to host the various Intel/AMD platform, like windows or linux platforms.
However, certain platforms cannot be hosted in a virtual environment as they use proprietary hardware. The lab has a couple of SGI and SUN hardware system to host such platforms.

Hardware

To host the various platforms, the lab is equiped with 3 SUN boxes, 2 SGI  and an Intel based server.

The SUN boxes are:
- SUN Ultra 5, cheap on ebay and with IDE componants.
- SUN Ultra 2, a classic and affordable.
- SUN E450, a server platform donated.

For SGI:
- SGI Indy, donated and full of functionnalities.
- SGI Octane. Excellent Unix platform.

For Mac:
- Mac Mini, small with plenty of resources.

For the Intel/AMD server:
- DELL T105, small, economical and with reasonable performance for a test environment.

For the clients:
- old PCs or in virtual mode.

Services

This setup allows experimenting and testing numerous solutions/services. Some services are installed and setup permanently to help in testing: DHCP, DNS, file, print and web servers, FTP, proxy, database, email.