This does indeed look like it could go into a gaeneti VM, since they are very low requirements.

"@bd808 suggested that we could move those machines to VMs on Ganeti, but I'm not entirely sure what that implies."

Basically we toss it into vm-requests not hardware-requests and @akosiaris reviews that project. Once reviewed and approved, either Alex, Daniel, or myself can make the VM and get it spun up. I'd like to do so, since I've not created one since Alex re-balanced the VM's between rows, but any root can make it.

The full details for requests on VMs is here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operations_requests#Virtual_machine_requests_.28Production.29

With the small requirements of these hosts, putting them into a ganeti VM does seem quite feasible. It also is cheaper, since shared hw cost in the VM cluster is cheaper for small service requirements like this than bare hardware.

@Gehel, yes it does. In fact it's a pretty good idea. Resource wise, these hosts look like perfect candidates (the mem requirement of 8GB is a tad high but OK). Fire up the vm-requests and will get them done in no time.

There is one small point. I see logstash100[1-3] are spread across 3 rack rows. This is not currently possible with ganeti as we have it spread across only 2 rows. From what I gather this should not be a problem, let me know otherwise. Make sure to point out in the request which 2 hosts should reside on the same row.