Rosie, Firstly opensolaris-help is for installation issues with OpenSolaris; and not systems analysis points/questions , and *definitely* not job-hunting-help. Sorry.
> I have a job interview next week and have been asked to make a presentation > on the following topic > > The computerised Library System at a university runs on a number of servers, > two of which are essential > to the service. These two standalone servers provide different parts of the > service and are each single > points of failure. The two servers and the applications running on them are: > > ? Sun Fire V240 ? 2x1503 MHZ UltraSPARC III CPUs ? 8GB memory ? 4 years > old ? Solaris 9 ? > Oracle 10.2 ? MySQL 4.1.9-standard ? applications to access library databse. > > ? Sun Fire V490 ? 2x1350 MHZ UltraSPARC IV CPUs ? 8GB memory ? 4 years > old ? Solaris 8 ? > Sysbase 12.0 ? application to access university portal. > Please don't ask *anything* about Solaris 9 or 8 here. You will at best be requested to "go away" politely; and at worst,..... > Storage is provided on a dual site Storage Area Network. > > We must introduce high availability into our increasingly important Library > Systems so we wish to > replace these servers with new hardware and a configuration which will give > us high availability and > will minimise future down time. > > Suggest how this may be achieved based on the following assumptions: > > ? The new high availability system will be hosted on Sun servers running > Solaris 10. > ? We have two data centres in separate locations with fast fibre > connections. > ? Data storage will continue to be provided from a two site SAN. > > > please, please help > anything at all would be greatly appreciated > I am so sorry, but you will get little. Go to bigadmin.sun.com get some reading materials and the very best of luck (it's not what you know - the precursor is to know (roughly) where to find it) - and we have been disseminating this concept for some years now; and I personally for decades. Regards... Sean.
