From: Angelo McComis (Sun Managers) (sunmanagers@mccomis.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 08:51:44 EDT
Current system:
E4500, Solaris 7 (patch 35), 8cpu (SPARC ii, 400mhz), 8gb memory
I have inherited two of these running in a cluster (although the clustering
is currently disabled).
These are getting old, and I have the budget opportunity to do a tech
refresh.
Currently, in this 8x8 configuration, I'm seeing load average of 4.5, 4.0,
4.0 (1m/5m/15m) which is acceptable, however, we're of the opinion that the
hardware itself is beginning to reach its end of usefulness.
For what we're doing, having a domainable server is not a requirement,
neither is slide-in/slide-out cpu/mem boards, so a SunFire unit would be
with acceptable limits. I know that going from a SFx80 (for instance) to a
SFx800, the price per CPU jumps about 3x, and to the SFx900, is about 4x.
Aside from domainable and flexibility of scaling vertically within the box,
what else does this 3x/4x price difference get for us?
Our applications are HP OpenView and Oracle, they live together on one box
today (again, I didn't do it... I only inherited it.), and I'm considering
recommending a pair of SF440's (config: 4x8 for OV, 4x16 for Orcl) to
replace these. Oracle lives on one and the OpenView management and it's
accessory applications (telalert, etc.) live on the other. The 440s can be
ordered with 4x73GB drives... this is more than enough for our needs.
Am I on the right track, close, or way off?
Thanks all, and as always, I'll be happy to summarize.
Angelo
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