Best Server?
Terry Inzauro
tinzauro at ha-solutions.net
Mon Nov 29 03:33:50 CET 2004
http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=111394
I'm partial to Sun. Their hardware is hard to beat in reliability and
performance.
_Terry
Jan Scholten wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am in the glorious position to choose what kind of server should be
> bought for the monitoring server. But actually i have no Idea where to
> put stress on.
>
> I am using Nagios 1.2 to monitor about 200 Hosts and 400 Services but
> that will be alot ( maybe + 600 Services) more when everything is proper
> configured.
>
> Actually i am running Nagios on a Celeron 300 with 128 Meg under Debain
> testing, works but starts lagging (load up to 15) and webside is kinda
> slow.
>
> So i got the following question from purchasing guy: What sort of spec
> do you think would be appropriate? What make/model CPU? Single CPU or
> multiple? How much RAM?
>
> I believe because of the lots of spawned processes a Dual CPU would be
> fine and some RAM. What would you recommend (be realistic i don't want
> to have a Dual XXX that is idleing all the time)?
>
> I was thinking about either a small Dual System (better opteron or
> Xeon?) with around a gig of ram. Or a single AMD64 or P4 with a gig of RAM.
>
> A configured Dell Server:
> Dual Xeon 2.8, 1 Gig Ram, 2 *40 GB Raid 1 Harddisks is about 1800 Euro.
>
> a selfbuild P4 3.2 will be definitly cheaper :-)
>
>
>
> Jan
>
>
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