Good Afternoon All,
I'm putting together a HSG80/43x4 SAN for use by our Tru64 5.1a servers and
WinNT/2K servers. Filling three 4314's with 36G disks should provide more
than enough capacity for our environment, but I am more concerned with
performance of the SAN.
Would I see a great performance gain by using Dual Bus 4354's than the
Single Bus 4314's?
Compaq makes it sound like you could connect a ton of servers to the SAN and
would still be faster than Direct Attached Storage. I have mostly Oracle
running on Tru64 and a mix of custom apps, as well as Exchange, Citrix, and
such running on WinX. Most of the WinX servers will only require a few
Gigs, so I foresee several WinX boxes hitting the same disks. I am
concerned that if I go with the 4314's I will generate too much buss
activity and cause access degradation.
Any real world perspectives would be appreciated.
Douglas L. Thomas
Unix Administrator
Great Lakes Gas Transmission
dthomas_at_glgt.com
Received on Tue Mar 05 2002 - 20:57:47 NZDT