On 06/07/2010 08:08 PM, Vick Khera wrote:
Our primary DB server is a Sun X4200 M2 with 20Gb RAM with a "Dual
LSILogic FC7X04X 4Gb/s FC PCI-Express Adapter" fibre channel card
plugged into it, directly connected to a SurfRAID Triton 16 array from
Partners Data Systems. The SurfRAID does the RAID
On 06/07/2010 08:01 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
Where I work we use these:
http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/scsas16rm.asp
for when we need lots of throughput (file servers). They allow four
SAS connectors instead of the typical one or two.
and will be using these:
http://www.aberdeeni
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:43 PM, u235sentinel wrote:
> What kind of external RAID systems do you connect your Sun servers to? I've
> talked to Oracle/Sun and haven't been able to get a solution even similar to
> the 4540 systems. I'm hoping to find something that will allow a couple
> disk
Our p
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:43 PM, u235sentinel wrote:
> On 06/07/2010 12:13 PM, Vick Khera wrote:
>>
>> Ditto. Of late I'm buying HPs, but I haven't yet put one into
>> database service. Our DB servers are all currently Sun with fibre
>> channel cards to external RAID systems.
>>
>>
>
> What kind
On 06/07/2010 12:13 PM, Vick Khera wrote:
Ditto. Of late I'm buying HPs, but I haven't yet put one into
database service. Our DB servers are all currently Sun with fibre
channel cards to external RAID systems.
What kind of external RAID systems do you connect your Sun servers to?
I've
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:27 PM, u235sentinel wrote:
>> I'm curious if anyone has had any experiences (good and bad) using Postgres
>> on Dell PowerEdge servers.
>
> I've had lots of experience with Dell, most of it poor. Wrong upgrade
> CPU
On 06/06/2010 02:04 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
u235sentinel wrote:
A Dell system running a PERC with battery-backed write controller will
be faster on database writes than your 4540. Those Sun boxes are
terrible at OLTP style workloads in particular, the types of writes
PostgreSQL does can't be c
On 06/05/2010 07:20 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
My manager and I are looking at replacing a Sun x4540 server with a
Dell server connected to a disk subsystem (or two). We're looking at
the R710 servers connected to an MD1220 I believe (I'd have to look
again at the quote).
why are you looki
u235sentinel wrote:
The concern we have is our 4540 has a 2TB database which is working
great. The server has 48 hard drives (250 gig drives) in RAID 10
across 6 disk controllers. A couple HBA controllers connected to a
couple dozen disks may be slower (though dell assures us it will be
fast
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:27 PM, u235sentinel wrote:
> I'm curious if anyone has had any experiences (good and bad) using Postgres
> on Dell PowerEdge servers.
I've had lots of experience with Dell, most of it poor. Wrong upgrade
CPUs, use of non-buffered memory meaning I can't max out my machine
u235sentinel wrote:
I'm curious if anyone has had any experiences (good and bad) using
Postgres on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Poweredge is a brandname that describes every single server Dell has
sold since about 15 years ago, maybe more. I had a Poweredge that was
a dual 600Mhz pentium-III w/
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