From: Stoyan Genov (stoyan.genov@sun-fish.com)
Date: Tue Aug 23 2005 - 08:44:51 EDT
Good day,
My company runs an Oracle database on a Sun Fire V880 machine;
the machine currently has 6 x 1.2GHz CPUs, 48GB RAM and is
using a pair of T3 arrays for storage.
We expect the load to grow beyond the possibilities of a fully-
populated with CPUs V880 machine, so I am looking for a bigger
SPARC-based machine which will run Solaris and Oracle.
I have to estimate whether we can obtain Fujitsu hardware
instead of Sun hardware, namely to (try to) compare a
Fujitsu Primepower 850 with an Eternus 3000 Model 80 array
for storage versus a Sun E2900 server with a StorEdge 3510 array.
Links:
Fujitsu:
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/unix/mid/pw850/PRMPWR_850ts.html
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/storage/system/eternus3000/spec/STRSYS_model80.html
Sun:
http://www.sun.com/servers/midrange/sunfire_e2900/
http://www.sun.com/storage/workgroup/3000/3500/3510/index.xml
I would appreciate any comments or thoughts on this matter; here is
what I have found so far as for's and against's (please also correct me
if I'm wrong somewhere in the list):
Sun E2900 + StorEdge 3510:
For:
- "true" Sun hardware, no quirks expected during the migration;
- chip multithreading on CPUs;
- can mix CPU boards/speeds (possibly buy faster processors later)
- 16MB cache on CPUs (as opposed to max. 3MB on Fujitsu CPUs);
- presumably higher fault tolerance within the machine;
Against:
- presumably higher price;
- FC switch(es) required for HA storage configuration;
- "only" 12 CPUs supported (as opposed to 16 in Fujitsu PP 850)
- (don't know if it's true) can't expand number of 66MHz PCI slots
Fujitsu PP 850 + Eternus 3000 model 80:
For:
- SPARC V CPUs (SPARC IV on Sun E2900)
- higher CPU speeds;
Against:
- (subjective) terra incognita, never worked w/ Fujitsu hardware before;
- no 1Gbps copper LAN built-in (will "eat" a 66MHz PCI slot);
Thank you in advance. I will summarize.
Best Regards,
Stoyan Genov
P.S. I hope this post is appropriate for the mailing list (FAQ 1.2.6).
Apologies if it is not. --sdg
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