As usual, thanks for the many helpful responses. I got answers from:
"Haesaerts, Corinne" <Corinne.Haesaerts_at_compaq.com>
"Leonard, Nick" <NLeonard_at_poole-tr.swest.nhs.uk>
"Davis, Alan" <Davis_at_tessco.com>
Joe Fletcher <joe_at_meng.ucl.ac.uk>
Matthew Harris <harrism_at_celerent.com>
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Graham Van Epps <gvanepps_at_compurex.com>
"Edward J. Branley" <ed_at_softadv.com>
In general the suggestions were to go with a pair of DS20E's with either
an MA3000 or MA8000 storage cabinet. A couple of people also suggested
looking at StorageWorks DRM to 'mirror' two clusters to keep our
off-site cluster up-to-date. I wasn't familiar with DRM, but I'm looking
into it.
Thanks again.
--Rick Beebe
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Help me spend some money on a new cluster
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:34:08 -0400
From: Rick Beebe <richard.beebe_at_yale.edu>
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
Suite 214, 100 Church Street South, New Haven, CT 06519
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