On 15/03/06, Sean P. Elble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Paul Henry wrote: > > > Dear List, > > > > We have just bought: > > > > * Dual AMD CPU, 8TB NAS, 4GB RAM (DNUK.COM) - SUSE 9.3 > > * Two Dell 2850, 3GB RAM, Dual Xeon 3.2GHz, 300GB Raid 5 - Fedora Core 4 > > > > Now obviously we want to use the Storage ;-) > > First off, jealousy has set in. If you need anyone to "test" that > equipment out, I don't think you'd find any shortage on this list. :-)
Ha. Just to make you more jealous: we have 2 switches, a 24-Port Cisco 2970 and a 12-Port 3com SuperStack III 3812, both can be Fibre. 5KVA UPS. 8-Tape LTO2 Quantum Autoloader. All in a nice 42U Dell rack with a Rack-mount Keyboard and LCD Display. About £25k worth and just powered up today ;-) > > > > > How would you guys recommend we proceed? > > > > Samba PDC on one 2850, LDAP Directory on second, and somehow mount the > > storage for the shares? > > > > Or run the PDC on the NAS, and keep the LDAP Directory on a 2850? > > > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Oh, its for about 20-30 users ;-) > > Honestly, for that many users, PDC/LDAP performance probably will not > matter much. It sounds as though transferring files will be your > bottleneck, and even that will almost certainly be limited by your > network, even if you are entirely gigabit based. It's all GB, with some Fibre if things get hairy. > Depending on your > hardware requirements, and how "available" those Dell machines are, my > ideal recommendation would be to mirror the two Dell systems, and run > something like Heartbeat <http://www.linux-ha.org/> across the two. To use > the storage from the AMD system on each of the Dell's, I'd mount the large > file system via NFS on each of the Dell machines, with each of the Dells > connected to the AMD system via "private" gigabit Ethernet (and by > private, I mean on a switch dedicated to those 3 servers, basically). > > If that's not an option, I don't see any real reason why you couldn't just > run the PDC on the AMD box, and LDAP on one of the Dell machines. > Honestly, other than for reducing points of failure, that single AMD box > could almost definitely do everything you want to do without issue. And > regardless, I'd just love to be able to have that hardware. :-) Hope my > $0.02 helps . . . Will stick it all on the NAS and leave the 2850s for Audio/Video encoding which is what they were bought for (but could be used), as I don't think they need to be "that" available. Thanks, Paul. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Paul. > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > > > -- > +-------------------------------------------------+ > | Sean Elble | > | Virginia Tech | > | Computer Engineering, Class of 2008 | > | Vice President, VTLUUG | > | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > +-------------------------------------------------+ > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
