Ronan
I'd go for dual opteron V20z if you want to stick with sun kit.
Will outperform the Sparc based stuff.
no need to heart-beat, just have the two machines on same MX value and DNS will load balance for you.
Would be interesting to see how Solaris 10 compares with Linux in this environment - you'd have to test both to see they cope.
-- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
Ronan wrote:
Hey list,
I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by my boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current setup was hitting load max they found some cash for me... :D
We are in a university environment with over 100,000 mails daily.
What Im currently looking at is either 2 Sun v150s or 2 dual-opterons probably with a gig each, and the standard 80+gigs.
Which one will be better suited to SA? I know SA is more cpu/ram than disk IO so im leaning more toward the AMD approach. The reason there are 2 machines of each is because im gonna implement fail over using heartbeat. Does it make a difference the Solaris / Linux route? Will SA benefit from the dual processor option? Any other factors I should consider?
many thanks as always
ronan
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