> At work I don't really have a choice -- we can either buy Sun or
> Dell, or spend weeks justifying not using the approved vendors.
>
Then my reccomendation under your supported hardware agreement
is exactly what I use:
sun V20Z server
Dell Perc4/DC raid card
Dell Jbod (i.e. 220s or something) hooked up to the PERC card.
> While Sun is offering some very nice AMD64 (and Sparc64) kit,
> Sun just never seems to understand that customers want
> embedded hardware RAID controllers on the motherboard.
While it would occasionally be nice I find the embedded stuff
is usually garbage, and you can only have 3 drives in a 1U chassis.
at the point I'm going to do this I'd just as soon have two machines
with one drive and do the redundancy between machines instead of
trying to make an ultra reliable 3 disk setup on crap.
When I do want it reliable, I do what I suggested to you above.
BTW, my one bitch about the v20z is sun are a bunch of retards
and put all the vents on the top and bottom, so I'm reluctant to rack
them one on top of the other.
-Bob
