From: CS Waibale Simon (swaibale@use.or.ug)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 08:32:37 EDT
Hi Managers-
Thank y'll for the insights.
We intend to deploy Oracle 9, and running applications (Oracle-based)
related to Stock excahnge/control in a tiny economy -not so much
processing/data as of now but scalability
is key as expansion is envisaged.
Web services may have to be intergrated thereon in the future.
Cheers,
S.
----- Original Message -----
From: <rossman@columbia.edu>
To: "CS Waibale Simon" <swaibale@use.or.ug>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Limitations of Sun Fire V240
> > I'm in the process of acquiring a Sun Fire V240 server for our
> > data centre production server. Does anyone know of any issues
> > with the above. Can the disks be scaled in future (from 4 say
> > to 8)? I see a limitation with the No. of CPUs(only 2) -
> > Is this significant?
>
> It might be, it might not be. It all depends on the workload
> you are going to put on this system. It is difficult to make
> a decision as to whether any particular computer system is
> the right one, or if there might be any significant limitations
> without knowing your workload.
>
> Database servers (running databases such as Oracle, Sybase,
> UDB, or Informix) that can take full advantage of a large-scale
> MP system may not fare as well on the V240 than as on, say,
> a V440, or even a V880 or something larger. You need to know
> what your load is going to be, and what the acceptable time
> limits within which you need to get the job done are.
>
> The V240 can serve very well as a file server, a web server
> (though there are even better machines to use for web servers
> -- certainly cheaper ones), or a small-scale database server.
> The V240 has four built-in 10/100/1000Mb/s ethernets, so it
> may be quite well suited for certain network utility tasks.
>
> What more can you tell us about the future function this
> V240 will serve?
>
> KR
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