As it is intended for a Sun Ray server (even for only 5 users) I would
recommend not using any of the machines with only one cpu (single core)
unless you have the budget to get an extra cpu with it as you will
certainly hit performance issues running only one cpu/core. You also
want a minimum 2GB to serve those 5 users (1GB would be inadequate).
If you are leaning towards the v40z ask them if they can do a X4200 for
you (they are very nice machines, especially with 2*cpu(with dual core))
Craig Bender wrote:
The E250 is quite old, over 7 years I think. Your application set
should dictate SPARC or x86. If the applications are available on
both, I'd go with fastest chip, most memory, and fastest disks.
Memory seems a bit lite in all the below configs with the exception of
the T2000 and 40z. Problems with those is that they have slower
chips. The T2000's are great for scaling out vertically but not so
great at quickly launching interactive applications.
Hana Skoumalova wrote:
Hello,
in our institute, we have an E250 and 5 SunRays. The E250 was sold as
a "workgroup server", a computer designed to serve the SunRays, but
the X window applications were always notably slow. Recently, it
became real pain to work on this machine locally (in graphic
environment).
We are thinking about buying a new machine and we hover between
another Sparc, and Linux (x86-64) machine. We got an offer to buy two
Sun machines for the price of one and I want to ask you for your
opinion. The server should serve 5 users, where all users run an
X-server, desktop manager, Mozilla/Firefox, they may run OpenOffice,
emacs with huge files opened, and from time to time they may run a
program which makes busy one processor.
The offer includes these Sun Fire servers:
SF T2000 4core 1.0GHz, 8GB RAM, 2x73GB HD
SFV40z 2x852,4GB,1x73GB S3
SFV125,1x1Ghz,1GB,1x73GB,1xPSU
SFV210,2x1.34GHz,2GB,2x73GB SFV215,1x1.5,1GB,1x73GB,1xPSU
SFV240,1x1.34GHz,512MB,1x73GB SFV245,1x1.5,1GB,1x73GB,1xPSU
SFV245,2x1.5,2GB,2x73GB,2xPSU
Thank you.
Hana
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