On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Moore, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Ian Collins wrote:
>> I think you'd be surprised how large an organisation can migrate most,
>> if not all of their application servers to zones one or two Thumpers.
>>
>> Isn't that the reason for buying in "server appliances"?
>>
>
> Assuming that the application servers can coexist in the "only" 16GB
> available on a thumper, and the "only" 8GHz of CPU core speed, and the fact
> that the System controller is a massive single point of failure for both the
> applications and the storage.
>
> You may have a difference of opinion as to what a large organization is, but
> the reality is that the thumper series is good for some things in a large
> enterprise, and not good for some things.
>
Agreed. My biggest issue with the Thumper is that all the disks are
7,200RPM SATA and have limited IOPS. I'd like to see the Thumper
configurations offered allowing a user chosen mixture
of SAS and SATA drives with 7,200 and 15K RPM spindle speeds. And
yes - I agree - you need as much RAM in the box as you can afford; ZFS
loves lots and lots of RAM and your users will love the performance
that large memory ZFS boxes provide.
Did'nt they just offer a thumper with more RAM recently???
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