[DCN-TechOps] Specs for new DCN server
Steve McMahon
steve at dcn.org
Tue Sep 28 08:46:59 PDT 2004
Greetings DCN tech ops,
Jack Crowell, Robert Nickerson, Tom Stanionis, Richard Lowenberg and
myself recently met to discuss specs for a couple of new application
servers. Please join us in the discussion, as we try to spec machines.
Requirements for the new systems:
* Excellent processor and memory performance to capably run Zope, Plone
and MySQL.
* Ideally running Solaris, to leverage Jack's experience, but Linux or
BSD would be acceptable if we can't manage Solaris in our budget.
* At least two ether ports.
* At least RAID 1 (mirroring) capable. We don't, though, need huge
initial storage.
* Redundant power supplies would be nice.
* Start w/ at least 1GB of RAM, expandable to at least 4GB.
Budget: we need to come in under $10,000 for two similarly equipped
machines and 1-yr service contracts.
Initial comments and links from Jack, Rob and myself are pasted below.
Thanks, Steve
Robert Nickerson wrote:
> Hi
>
> Server suggestions
>
> Really like these:
>
> www.supermicro.com
>
> hada colo customer a while back that had several of these for a redundant
> database style application similar to what you are planning. Also my good
> buddy in the NOC at Exodus recommends them
>
>
> Sun NETRA series is the price range we are looking at
> http://www.anysystem.com/netra-t1-105-special-1.html
John M. Crowell wrote:
> FWIW: Here's a recent Sun presentation on their new systems:
>
>
http://see.sun.com/Apps/DCS/mcp?r=70042sYz3dlu01A0003miB3miy42sYz0mbbb0bcE
[From Steve:]
Take a look at Sun's entry Opteron offering:
http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=111394
The "Small" configuration -- plus an additional drive -- would get us
going with an option to add a second processor later. We could start
with 32-bit Solaris and upgrade to 64 when available.
Steve
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