Re: Hardware suggestion?
From: Glenn (glenn_at_IREPORTEVERYSPAMMER.canit.se)
Date: 12/23/03
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Date: 23 Dec 2003 22:35:13 +0100
> + On 23-Dec-03 01:26:06
+Will Hartung <willh@msoft.com> wrote
>Ideally, there will be a lot of caching, and the DB will be more write
>intensive than read intensive.
>So, obviously, I'm curious about hardware suggestions.
>Do y'all think v100s are too slow for this? The v120s offer pretty much the
>same thing, but with SCSI and hot swappable drives, and potentially more
>memory. Or do I need to move up to the v210?
Both the V120 and V210 is very nice machines, I would avoid the V100,
not that it's bad, but for a server I see mirrored disks as a min req.
>I like the idea of mirroring the drives for a minor stab at availability,
>but we don't have the budget to get completely redundant.
And mirroring with disksuite (or what sun call it this week) works fine
and is free.
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>Should I consider a Intel 1/2U solution? Any that work well with Solaris
>x86? Punt and go Lintel? I'm not comfortable parting a 1U box together, and
>it is not clear that the Dells et al are dramatically better bang/buck. So,
>I'd rather stick with Sun hardware and Solaris.
We have both Sun and Dell servers at work and even if the dells work fine
I dont trust linux as much as Solaris.. also we had some strange problems
with dellmachines (some Poweredge, dont remember the model) that suddenly
lost one of the mirrored disks, after a call to dell they said "Ah, thats
a common problem, just remove the drive, boot, then shutdown and put the
same disk into the machine again and rebuild the mirror"
Aaargh, this is a server.. can't afford "common problems" that takes
half a day to recover..
Also dell wanted over a WEEK to replace a standard UWSCSI-cable that
another guy accidenticaly destroyed.. the call with dell was something like:
us: We want a scsicable that was destroyed asap, when can we have it ?
dell: you can have it in 12 days..
us: 12 DAYS ????
dell: Yes, there are no such cables in sweden..
us: But we have a servicecontract!
dell: Yes, but you destroyed it yourself..
us: Sure, we are going to pay it, but we need it NOW!
dell: Sorry, but we cant do anything about it..
us: But this is a server grade machine ?
dell: Yes..
Duh..
Fortunatly it was a standard cable so a serviceminded computerstore could
send one with expressdelivery so we had it 40 minutes later (the delivery
costed alot more than the cable itself), but I dont want to have the
same problem with some dell-specific part..
I dont say that this kind of stuff never happens with sun equipment, but
it havn't happened to me yet, and it lowered my trust in dell ALOT..
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