>Actually we are offering to our customers a news service using a Mirosoft
>Product.
>
>Our news architecture is based on a main server running Microsoft MCIS,
>and a second server runnind Dnews to get a feed from satellite and passing
>it in IHAVE mode to the first one.
>
>Due to better Dnews stability and features, we want to use it as our main
>system, but we need an answer to the following questions.
>
>1) Is it possible to use a Network attached storage, like our netapp F760
>(www.netappp.com) with 500 GB of space and a gigabit connection to the our
>main switch? Actual news server is based on this device to store all the
>articles ...
Yes should work fine we've got some other customers using netapps in this way.
>2) If it is technically possible, will Dnews remain stable without the
>better performance of a local disk array?
Yes.
>In summary, the architecture will be:
>
>Server: Dual PIII 500MHZ, 640 MB ram, 2 100BaseT Nic in etherchannel, 2
>9GB U2W disk in raid1 for system, pagefile and hash files
>
>Store: 500GB NAS with Gigabit connection to switch
>
>Thanks for the help, Marco D'Angelo
I recommend storing the dnews history and workarea on local drives if that
is an option, the two 9gb disks should give sufficient space for
this. This isn't critical but probably does help performance.
To use the networked drive you just configure dnews to have a username and
password in the control panel/services and map the network drive for that
username.
Also if the network drive goes down it's important to stop dnews as it doesn't
like not being able to find it's files :-)
ChrisP.
