Anyone running big SPARC boxes?

[Martin Hepworth]

Julian

I know others have said this, but personally I'd look at either multiple
V20z's or put Sun Fire B100x's in a blade chasis. This will of course
get you redunancy - esp nice with the blade chasis as you can configure
from tha blader server provisioning software running on V120, so swap
outs/ additional kit is easy to configure/load and of course expand!

Alot of the MS's work is CPU bound (and memory) as you know esp for SA,
so faster processors is better than more I/O esp with an O/S like
Solaris that is heavily I/O tuned anyway.

Unless of course the client has  big SUN lying around doing very little :-)

Just my thoughts.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Julian Field wrote:
> At 18:34 07/07/2004, you wrote:
>
>>   Define "full blast".
>
>
> I am looking for the maximum figure the system could handle in a day, with
> all CPU's working 100% of the time all day. I am trying to produce some
> hardware specs for a big site, but I have never had any big SPARC boxes to
> run it on. All I've got is a Blade 100 and an Ultra-5, which don't really
> help very much :-)
>
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