Verified Commit 2486e4fa authored by anarcat's avatar anarcat 💥
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drop the AX51 experiment but keep documentation

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  the following settings:

  * Server: [PX62-NVMe](https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/px62-nvme?country=OTHER)
  
    Note: we are also experimenting with the new AX line
    ([AX51-NVMe](https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax51-nvme?country=OTHER)) but in the past DSA had problems live-migrating
    (it wouldn't immediately fail but there were "issues" after). So
    we might need to [failover](http://docs.ganeti.org/ganeti/2.15/man/gnt-instance.html#failover) instead of migrate between those
    parts of the cluster.

  * Location: `FSN1`
  * Operating system: Rescue
  * Additional drives: 2x10TB
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- Prepare all the nodes by configuring them in puppet.  They should be in the class `roles::ganeti::fsn` if they
  are part of the fsn cluster.  If you make a new cluster, make a new role and add nodes.

## New Master
Note: we considered experimenting with the new AX line
([AX51-NVMe](https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax51-nvme?country=OTHER)) but in the past DSA had problems live-migrating (it
wouldn't immediately fail but there were "issues" after). So we might
need to [failover](http://docs.ganeti.org/ganeti/2.15/man/gnt-instance.html#failover) instead of migrate between those parts of the
cluster. There are also doubts that the Linux kernel supports those
shiny new processors at all: similar processors had [trouble booting
before Linux 5.5](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Threadripper-3000-MCE-5.5-Fix) for example, so it might be worth waiting a
little before switching to that new platform, even if it's
cheaper. See the cluster configuration section below for a larger
discussion of CPU emulation.

## New cluster

To create the fsn master, we added fsngnt to DNS, then ran