Just as an asside, how many people are building Master servers on SATA?
Thumper is a big box of SATA. Whats the performance of NBU 6.5 on SATA
anyway?


Jim


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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Master Server on a SUN Thumper?


After doing a bit more digging, I have learned that a SUN Thumper works well
as a media server.  Our local SUN office was able to provide some
documentation outlining the process.  They said the PDFs are distributable
so if you can't find them via SUN, I've made them available for anyone to
get from:
  http://www.sfu.ca/~bryer/x4500/

I don't see anything in the documents to explain the rationale behind
requiring a separate master server.  Of course two issues have been brought
up here (BMR and the database performance).

The documents show a stock Thumper (with RaidZ) being able to push 350MB/s.
With mirrored pairs and additional network (or 10GbE) up to 550MB/s can be
achieved.  This is with Update 4 (8/07) of Solaris 10.

I still would like to see a Thumper used as a master server assuming of
course that BMR isn't needed.



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Jeff Bryer                              bryer AT sfu DOT ca
Systems Administrator                   (778) 782-4935
IT Infrastructure, Simon Fraser University
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