Interesting. Your development ui will definitely move much faster. I would like to hear how things go when in production if you can share that information later on.
Axton Grams The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My voluntary participation in this forum is not intended to convey a role as a spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, Inc. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Eric Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Axton. > > We decided to go with M3000 after some internal discussion and external > consultation. The main reasons are: 1) Internally, we have some T5120 > servers that perform poorly with some applications; 2) I asked BMC support > for recommendation. BMC doesn't recommend a particular SPARC machine. > However from previous experience, they found that the T series is good for > mid-tier but not for CPU intensive operations in AR Server. The V series > or better yet M series is good for CPU intensive operations. > > Eric > > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 21:32:31 -0500, Axton <[email protected]> wrote: > > >We are using T5120, T5440, and T2000's to host Remedy. It runs Remedy > >really well but we are not running the ITSM applications. We are using > >Solaris 9 Branded Zones with Solaris 10 on the global host. We have done > >some special things to the boxes. We use libumem instead of libc (slab > >memory allocator) and we use quiet a few GNU tools because they are more > up > >to date. > > > >Zones are really nice when you need to clone an environment or need > >snapshots of an environment. > > > >There is an issues with some patches on Solaris 9 Branded Zones where > >rpcbind stops working with UDP transport for all services (I can get the > >details if interested) which does not work with Remedy. > > > >There is also an issue with Java 1.5 in the Branded Zones (1.4 and 1.6 JRE > >run fine), which prevents the X based Remedy installers from running at > all, > >but a patch or hotfix is available to address that issue. I can get more > >details here if needed. > > > >The only comments I can add is that the cores/threads are not that fast > >(1ghz, or a little faster), so the things that depend on one fast cpu do > not > >perform as well as a say, a single cpu box with a really fast cpu. The > >boxes handle a large number of concurrent users really well though. We > are > >able to support 2k to 4k (max peak) concurrent users on 2xT5120's without > >much of a load. > > > >Compiling software on these boxes, say compared to a SunFire or a M- > Series, > >is slow though. The concurrency on the cool-threads is great though. > > That's the trade-off. > > > >The zone technology still has some maturing to do, as compared to openvz > >(Linux) or bsd jails. Sun is making strides in the right direction, but > >they still have some catching up to do. > > > >With the zones, some of my favorite tools simply don't work because the > >container technology is not mature. Examples include lsof, tcpdump, and > >some other things. This is because they have not come up with a > >good privilege separation model to allow the zones to access kernel memory > >specific to the zone. There are hacks to work around this, but in the > >current model they create gaping holes in the security of the > virtualization > >because they allow the zones access to the kernel memory for every other > >zone and the global host. This makes troubleshooting in zones impossible > or > >hap-hazard, at best. > > > >Axton Grams > > > >The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in > >this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My > >voluntary participation in this forum is not intended to convey a role as > a > >spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, > >Inc. > > > >On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eric Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> We are looking into purchasing a Sun T5120 to host AR System 7.5 and > >> Remedy apps (ITSM, CMDB, SRM, and SLM) with about 400 concurrent users. > >> The other options is M3000, which is a lot more expensive. > >> > >> Is anyone using T5120 (or any of Sun’s “cool-threads” series of servers) > >> to host AR System and ITSM apps? Any feedback is appreciated. > >> > >> Eric > >> > >> > >> > ___________________________________________________________________________ > ____ > >> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > >> attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > >> > > > >__________________________________________________________________________ > _____ > >UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > >attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
