Help me spend some money on a new cluster

From: Rick Beebe <richard.beebe_at_yale.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:34:08 -0400

Our current mail server is dual Alphaserver 1200's connected to two
HSZ70's in transparent failover mode with 24 9-gig drives in a BA370
rack. The whole thing is running as a TruCluster. Our current disaster
recover plan calls for a backup cluster and I need to spec it out. Our
current server has had some performance problems--primarily related to
disk I/O--so I'd like the new cluster to be faster and better and I'll
relegate the current machine to the backup/testing role.

So help me spend some money here. What would you get? I won't say that
money is no object, but availability (hence the cluster) is the prime
criteria. Performance--especially disk--is number two and cost number
three.

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    Rick Beebe                                            (203) 785-6416
    Manager, Systems & Network Engineering           FAX: (203) 785-3978
    ITS-Med Production Services                   Richard.Beebe_at_yale.edu
    Yale University School of Medicine
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