Steve,
We have a three 420R boxes, two 450 boxes, three 6500's. Each of our 420R's
configuration is --- 4 cpu's - 450 MHZ, 4 GB RAM. We are using 420R boxes
for our development. We have Oracle 817, WebLogic 6.1 and some middle tier
software loaded onto these 420Rs.
These 420R boxes come
Steve - Is the 420R part of the new Sun Serengeti series? We had a test box
here and I recall the model number as being similar. If it is the same
thing, that box was a real screamer.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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Well I have just returned from the Sun site, and checked out the two
systems. The 420r is a rackmount server in the Enterprise Server series.
It uses Sparciii processors, up to 4 at 450mhz. I don't' think I would
consider this configuration an upgrade. I also doubt you'd classify this
one as a
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Steve - Is the 420R part of the new Sun Serengeti series? We had a test box
here and I recall the model number as being similar. If it is the same
thing, that box was a real screamer.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL
We have a few production E420Rs, 4-450 mhz processors, 1 to 1.5 G
memory. I've been quoted benchmarks (although I haven't researched
them) that an equivalent Intel processor runs faster. Based on that I
might be inclined to recommend faster processors if we were buying new.
The CPU does seem to
