At 9:05 am +0800 12/4/06, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
how do you set up a cluster ? I've heard of beowulf clusters , but
not sure if this is just normal hardware.
We were going to do a cluster, but the shared storage RAID gadgets
blew the budget up - things like Snap Server 4200 or Xserve RAID
might work. Else they are dearer from other manufacturers. Snap
Server 4200 does not do RAID 10 or 0+1. Xserve apparently does.
Google "low cost cluster"
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:06:08 +1000
To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]>
From: Ian Cheong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone into low cost clusters?
http://www.clusterworld.com/value_cluster.shtml
.
Last I asked a few months ago, nobody had a cluster or else they
didn't own up.
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:53:57 +1000
To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]>
From: Ian Cheong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Virtual servers
[...]
Don't you really want clustering functionality???? eg: per
http://www.intel.com/design/network/papers/25157401.pdf
I would like to put a server cluster in our practice with next
upgrade (due soon) to provide bullet-proof redundancy and 100%
uptime. Whether it is feasible on a budget seems a bit tricky, since
we appear to need a single high availability/redundancy RAID storage
device (with hot swap drive capability) and they all cost a bomb
(usually >$10k). In a 6 FTE fully deployed practice, our downtime
costs are significant - and we will estimate then as best we can to
help figure out potential benefits of a high availability system.
So how did you organise yours Horst?
Ian : )
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