Hi, How about the Dell Perc 5/i card, 512MB battery backed cache or IBM ServeRAID-8k Adapter?
I hope I am sending relevant information here, I am not too well versed with RAID controllers. Regards, Harsh On 9/6/07, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/6/07, Harsh Azad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Scott, we have now requested IBM/EMC to provide test machines. > > Interestingly since you mentioned the importance of Raid controllers and > the > > drivers; we are planning to use Cent OS 5 for hosting the DB. > > What RAID controllers have you looked at. Seems the two most popular > in terms of performance here have been Areca and 3Ware / Escalade. > LSI seems to come in a pretty close third. Adaptec is to be avoided > as are cheap RAID controllers (i.e. promise etc...) battery backed > cache is a must, and the bigger the better. > > > Firstly, I could only find postgres 8.1.x RPM for CentOS 5, could not > find > > any RPM for 8.2.4. Is there any 8.2.4 RPM for CentOS 5? > > > > Secondly, would investing into Redhat enterprise edition give any > > performance advantage? I know all the SAN boxes are only certified on > RHEL > > and not CentOS. Or since CentOS is similar to RHEL it would be fine? > > for all intents and purposes, CentOS and RHEL are the same OS, so any > pgsql rpm for one should pretty much work for the other. At the > worst, you might have to get a srpm and rebuild it for CentOS / White > Box. > -- Harsh Azad ======================= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
