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Server Configuration Overview

To increase security and reduce risk, Stanford is sunsetting its WebAFS service that is used to upload and download files to AFS.

To optimize AFS and make sure it is serving its intended functions, UIT has also taken these actions:

  • UIT no longer automatically provisions new faculty and staff members with AFS user volumes. New faculty or staff who need a personal user volume must submit a Help request.
    • This change does not impact existing AFS directories or the process for adding permissions for new individuals to those existing directories. Your existing space and everything in it remains intact.
    • This change does not impact the auto-provisioning of new AFS user volumes for students and postdocs.

​Class volumes do not expire and are kept indefinitely. This is an official academic policy, and any change to this policy must be considered by the Faculty Senate.

This table outlines the current hardware, software, and disk configurations for AFS fileservers serving the ir.stanford.edu AFS cell.

Server Model Operating
System		 Location Server Type Storage Capacity
afssvr10 Dell r610 Debian 6 East ECH a-i: User
j: Replicas		 NetApp 8 TB
afssvr11 Dell r610 Debian 6 East ECH a-i: User
j: Replicas		 NetApp 8 TB
afssvr12 Dell r610 Debian 6 East ECH a-i: User
j: Replicas		 NetApp 8 TB
afssvr13 Dell r610 Debian 6 East ECH a-i: User
j: Replicas		 NetApp 8 TB
afssvr14 Dell r610 Debian 6 East ECH a-i: User
j: Replicas		 NetApp 8 TB
afssvr15 Dell r610 Debian 6 East ECH a-i: User
j: Replicas		 NetApp 8 TB
afssvr16 Dell r610 Debian 6 East ECH a-i: User
j: Replicas		 NetApp 8 TB
afssvr17 Dell r610 Debian 6 East ECH a-i: User
j: Replicas		 NetApp 8 TB
afssvr23 Virtual Machine Debian 6 Forsythe a-i: Logs
j: Replicas		 NFS 2 TB
afssvr24 Virtual Machine Debian 6 Forsythe a-i: Logs
j: Replicas		 NFS 2 TB
afssvr-sec01 Dell r610 Debian 6 Forsythe a NFS 1 TB
afssvr-sec02 Dell r610 Debian 6 Forsythe a NFS 1 TB
afssvr-dev Virtual Machine Debian 6 Forysthe a-j NFS 810 GB

In the server type field, "Logs" indicates the servers hold log data and similar rarely accessed information, "Replicas" indicates replication sites for replicated volumes, "Replicated" indicates the master read/write volumes for replicated volumes, and "User" indicates user data (home directories, department and group directories, data volumes, and so forth). The letters indicate the partitions on the server used for a particular purpose.

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