I am not familiar with the 280R but we are running an E450 and we recently
evaluated a V880. My recommendation is to look at the environmental
characteristics of both. The v880 pumps out a lot of heat....I mean a lot
of heat. It pumps out about 2800 - 6500 BTU/hr depending on configuration.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Fisher [mailto:jfisher AT WFUBMC DOT EDU]
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:25 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] New Networker Hardware - please opine
>
> Hey all,
>
>
>
> I'm putting together some numbers for a backup hardware upgrade for
> next year and I wanted to get some opinions.
>
>
>
> My current environment:
>
>
>
> Solstice backup 6.1.2 will be at 7.x before I purchase new hardware
>
> 1 Sun 4x480 E450/2.6 will be upgrading to 8 soon(see next email :-))
>
> 210 clients growing by about 60-70 a year.
>
>
>
> My current choice is below:
>
>
>
> One 2x1.2Ghz Sun 280R - Master server doing indexes and self backups
> only
>
> One 4x1.05Ghz Sun V880 - Storage Node performing all the backups
> attached to 10 9940B drives
>
>
>
> Other consideration:
>
>
>
> Since the nsrd seems to be a bottleneck, for the master server I was
> considering going with some thing like the Sun V65x running RedHat since
> it has 3Ghz CPUs. I know well that all clock cycles are not equal, but
> 1.8Ghz is quite a difference. Does any one have experience with using
> redhat/intel as their master server with sparc based storage nodes?
>
>
>
> Also considering two 2x1.04Ghz V480 with 5 9940B drives each to spread
> the IO across two systems rather than one v880. Do you think there is
> an advantage to having multiple smaller storage nodes or one larger
> storage node?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Joel
>
>
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