Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] choice of master/media server platform

2005-10-26 10:10:11
Subject: [Veritas-bu] choice of master/media server platform
From: juanino AT yahoo DOT com (Jerry)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
Why not trial a Dell Poweredge or HP Proliant system
running linux?


--- Guang Yu Liu <gliu AT macquarietelecom DOT com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>       I know there were some debates before regarding OS
> choices for NBU
> but I'd like to ask one particular question. This
> was coming from an
> external consultant.
>       Background: I am a Unix guys so normally are biased
> towards
> stability/flexibility etc of *nix. But the
> consultant told us that since
> backups are mainly using I/Os, the buses should be
> an important deciding
> factor as well. He went out and found that even the
> most expensive of Sun
> servers tend to have PCI buses with 66MHZ only (most
> with 33MHZ) and most of
> the Intel boxes have 133MHZ PCI buses. He strongly
> suggested that we pick
> Windows for that.
>       Your opinions?
> 
> many thanks
> Guang
> Macquarie Telecom - delivering value for business
> and government.
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