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Re: [Networker] best platform for newest networker?
2008-02-12 02:22:52
Peter Viertel wrote:
So my money currently goes with the X4500 (4core opteron with 16GB ram,
and 48 internal 1TB SATA drives for USD$60k) with +40TB of disk space
to play with, you might be able to get away with having only 2 tape
drives (1 for staging work, 1 for redundancy).
My reservation about Networker on Solaris/X86 is that it was only
introduced with Networker 7 (7.2 ?) and I don't feel it is mature
enough. I might be wrong here and if someone will twist my arm very hard
to go with x86, I expect this to be my preferred platform.
A lot of people find having a windows backup server works out cheaper -
probably because they don't have to pay any unix weenies like me to
admin it. But once your backup load passes about 2TB per day I don't
think they give value for money (I'm biased perhaps).
Did I hear someone say trustworthy computing (NOT)?
Linux gets mentioned a lot - but there seems to me to be a fair deal of
effort to keep the kernel, the hardware, and the application all talking
to each other properly, If you are a mixed shop and you have solaris
admins in house, then I can't see how using linux would work out
cheaper...
Linux suffers from some immaturity (file systems, SAN stack), so its
configuration will be more complicated. I am not afraid of fixing driver
sources as was suggested more than once in this list, it is an
indication of immaturity. I do expect it to run OK with very minor
glitches once configured, so it will be my second OS choice for x86.
(now I shall duck for cover, I've questioned the sanctity of Linux and
must be destroyed! Maybe I should have a go at insulting macintosh users
too?)
Do you think we can squeeze in the same trench ?
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