Matt Herlihy writes: =;-)
Hi,
I'm considering moving to the HP 9000/800 platform for our
AFS servers. We currently use 8 HP 9000/7xx's that serve about
30G of AFS file space. I would like to consolidate to possibly
2 800 series servers and 2 750's. I'm looking for recommendations
from people who currently use the 800's. The questions I have
are:
How well do they function as AFS servers?
How much disk space can one accomodate?
Do you use single ended or fast wide SCSI?
What types of disks do you use?
Do you have specific model numbers for the servers and disks?
Is there a better way to go? Sun Sparc5 or Sparc20 for instance?
Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
-Matt
>-- End of excerpt from Matt Herlihy
I must confess that I don't know much about HP machines but our cell consists
at the moment of one Sparc10 andd two Sparc Server 20 machines all connected
via FDDI. We configure them with at most 32 Gb (8 * ST15150N Barracuda 4 Gb
disks from Seagate) and they perform very well. See
http://www.impediment.com/seagate/seagate_disk_data.html and
http://www.seagate.com/sales/cuda/cuda.html for more technical info.
No outages so far. We have another two Sparc Server 20 on order. The disks are
divided over two SCSI-2 contollers with at most 4 disks per controller for load
balancing.
Hope this is relevant to your decision making.
Fred
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