From: Martin Thorpe (Martin.Thorpe@DATAFORCE.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 11:21:01 EDT
Hi all
Hope everybody is well.
My company has a requirement for an off-SAN solution (DAS) that can
provide sufficient grunt to power a small database. The database will
consist of mostly customer demographic information that will be
accessed/updated sporadically by around 120-150 call centre staff
connecting via a VB application - may also be some updating processes
going on, but not much.
All random i/o, database around 20GB but with a view to small growth.
I have put forward 2 V440's to do the job (2x1.28ghz UltraSPARC IIIi
processors, 4GB memory and 4x73GB ULTRA320 10K RPM SCSI disks in each),
volumes will be VxVM controlled and RAID 10.
I am also heavily involved with speccing and deploying an upgrade SAN
solution, and so I have specced these two servers with HBA's in order to
plumb them into the future SAN, so the internal disks will not be used
for too long.
I just wondered what people thought of the V440's, does anyone use them
here as a small database server using the internal drives? if so how did
you set it up and how do you find performance.
Thanks
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