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[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Philips
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:17 AM
To: Ben Suffolk
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Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Optimizing disk throughput on quad Opteron
The thing I would ask is would you not be better
with SAS drives?
Since the comments on Dell, and the highlighted
issues I have been
looking at HP and the the Smart Array P600
controller with 512 BBWC.
Although I am looking to stick with the 8 internal
disks, rather than
use
On Oct 21, 2006, at 11:43 AM, John Philips wrote:
Can you guys see any glaring bottlenecks in my layout?
Any other suggestions to offer (throw in more
controllers, different RAID layout, etc.)? Our budget
limit is $50k.
If I had $50k budget, I'd be buying the SunFire X4500 and running
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
If I had $50k budget, I'd be buying the SunFire X4500 and running
Solaris + ZFS on it. However, you're limited to 2 dual core
Opterons,
it seems.
The HP 585 will give you quad dual core :)
but can you sling the bits to and from the
Vivek Khera wrote:
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
If I had $50k budget, I'd be buying the SunFire X4500 and running
Solaris + ZFS on it. However, you're limited to 2 dual core Opterons,
it seems.
The HP 585 will give you quad dual core :)
but can you sling the
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 08:43:05AM -0700, John Philips wrote:
I heard some say that the transaction log should be on
it's own array, others say it doesn't hurt to have it
on the same array as the OS. Is it really worthwhile
to put it on it's own array?
It all depends on the controller and
Hello,
I'm working out specs for a new database server to be
purchased for our organization. The applications the
server will handle are mainly related to network
operations (monitoring, logging, statistical/trend
reports, etc.). Disk I/O will be especially high with
relation to processing
I heard some say that the transaction log should be on
it's own array, others say it doesn't hurt to have it
on the same array as the OS. Is it really worthwhile
to put it on it's own array?
Can you guys see any glaring bottlenecks in my layout?
Any other suggestions to offer (throw in
You can find a diagram of my initial
spec here:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9171/dbserverdiagramuc3.jpg
Can you guys see any glaring bottlenecks in my layout?
Any other suggestions to offer (throw in more
controllers, different RAID layout, etc.)? Our budget
limit is $50k.
The thing I
