Dear gentleman, On 6/13/05, JR Dalrymple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear gentlemen, > > > > i am considering OpenBSD for a environment of 3K desktop and 15K users. > > Good considering... > > > > > > I will have to supply: > > > > server 0: email(pop3,smtp) > > server 1: proxy (squid) > > server 2: NIS + Kerberos > > server 3: OpenLDAP (BDB) > > server 4: NFS + FTP > > server 5: web (http + https) > > <snip> > > Some thing i really worried about is about storage server for home > > directories (server 4). What should it be its configuration like? > > Dual/Quad Xeon? What U320 RAID ? What about a 10 Gb Ethernet Interface ? > > Dual/Quad Xeon 350Mhz maybe, unless you were going to run OpenBSD under > VmWare on W2k3 or something :-S > > If you have faced some thing similar, would you mind replying me in pvt? > > > > Thanks a lot for your time and attention. > > Focus your dollars on good RAID/disk hardware. What the future holds for > AMI RAID controllers under OpenBSD is good. The only one of those servers
My main concern is on failures. I need a device fully supporte by obsd, one i can hot swap disks, fast to recover from a disk crash, etc ..... That`s my main concern about. > that I could see needing a decent amount of cpu-power would be 5, and > thats all dependant upon what kind of scripting etc. the machine is doing. web scripting will be PHP! Any other suggestion? I am free to change before before i set out a configuration and take it the who will considering paying for. > Are all 15k users going to be on simultaneously? In my environment we have > 1600 users, but also 24 hour usage, so you never see more than 800 or so > on simultaneously. That means you only *have* 800 users really. When i say 15K users, i mean user accounts. Let`s keep with 3K desktop running Linux (I can change that) as nfs client connect to a powerhorse openbsd server as a nfs server! > Might I also recommend backup servers? It appears as though you don't have > that figured in. Nothing is totally fail-safe. What if the logon, or db > server crashes; can you afford the downtime? > Of course you can suggest. MY IDEIA IS TO GET OBSD IN!!!!! Anything some may suggest that could be used with obsd and support a purpose would rock. I cannot afford dowtime. > > > Thanks you all once more.
