CPU and memory is more a need of the Hardware.  I would ask ATL what they
think is necissary to push 4 DLT8000 and Compaq what is needed to pull
through a GIG-E card.  NBU will use only what is necissary to feed the
hardware.  I don't know much about the Compaq lines, but you can push 4
DLT7000 with GIG-E on a Dual Xeon Processor NT box with a gig of RAM without
it even registering as a blip on the task manager.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Monjar [mailto:dam AT orgtek DOT com]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:30 PM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] how important is CPU/Memory of the Master server


I am starting to put up 3.4 Datacenter.  I will be using a Quantum/ATL
P1000 with 4 DLT8000 drives.  Currently the servers are on switched
100Mb but in a couple of months I will go to switched gigabit Ethernet
on the servers.  I'll be talking to the drives using two separate
Fast/Wide/Differential SCSI cards.

I'm deciding what machine to install as the master server.  The OS
will be Compaq Tru64 5.1.  The server can be an Alpha 4100/533 with
two processors and 2GB of RAM.  Or I can use an Alpha 2100A/275 with
four processors and 640MB of RAM.  It would be more convenient to me to
use the 2100 since I could pretty much dedicate it to the task.  The
4100 has other production purposes.

The 4100 is much faster as far as CPU goes but I imagine this type of
things isn't CPU bound.

What do you think?

-- 
Daniel Monjar (mailto:dmonjar AT orgtek DOT com)
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