What do you guys do for backup's? Do you put two NIC cards in each
server and maintain a separate network for that?
Thanks, from a guy that's about to take that big plunge into a scalable
mail design.
Tim
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 02:56:59AM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:41:48AM -0600, Tim Tsai wrote:
> > Russ, what is your definition of a "large" installation? 10k, 100k, 1m
> > users? Just exactly how many lighter-weight servers is practical to
> > manage and upkeep before it's cheaper to buy NetApp's?
>
> As someone who has purchased and maintained a lot of NetApp hardware over the
> last year let me tell you that NetApp is heinously expensive. The head unit
> alone usually goes for around $50k. Then add disks. We have since ditched the
> NetApp solution and re-architected things to use clusters of PC's. We are much
> happier with the cost effectiveness and the reliability. Of course we aren't
> using them for mail but I can think of ways to distribute a large mail load on
> cheap PC's.
