Best Server?

[Terry Inzauro]

I think a single CPU would be plenty in you put a decent amount of 
memory in it.  Also keep in mind that 2 cpu's doesn't necessarily equate 
to blazing performance.  The Sun box has U320 scsi, faster bus and I 
believe more cache(thats huge in cpu speed tests) on the cpu. Not to 
mention all the benifits of a true 64bit archeticure(either with ultra 
sparc or AMD)

Keep in mind also that those are list prices.  Chaces are your local sun 
vendor will be about 20% less than list.


If I were buying one to fit my needs, I would go with used Sun Enterprise

# sun 220r (used on ebay or something)
# (2) Sun UltraSPARC-II 450MHz Processor Modules (501-5539)
# Sun Enterprise 220R Motherboard (501-4450)
# (2) Sun 18.2GB 10K SCSI Hard Drives (540-4177)
# 2GB Total Memory (501-3136 - 16 SIMMs)
# Dual Redundant 380W Power Supplies
# maybe small raid array to increase disk IO for nagios demon

and run solaris 9/10 in 64bit mode.  you could prolly find 1 of these





or if you wanted new hardware

Sun V240

# UltraSPARC IIIi Cu Processor  1 @ 1 GHz  (these are blazing fast 1MB 
L2 cache on the cpu!!!!)
# Memory 2 GB (4 @ 512-MB DIMMS)
# Solaris LVM mirrored U320 36gb drives
# dual power supplies
# solaris 9/10 otr linux   i perfer solaris on sun hardware.

similar to the "small" config found here
http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=100055

Either way, I think you would be hard pressed to beat up eiter of those 
2 boxes with the described environemt.

I use an ultra2(2x296mhz) with 2gm ram and small raid array to do about 
3/4 of the  mentioned monitoring.

Good luck!
This is the best part of our jobs...shooping!!!

_Terry










Jan Scholten wrote:
> Terry Inzauro wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> 
> Yeah.. the Sun Fire is great, but do i need (for my configuration) a 
> Server for at least $2795 (while the dell version is below $2000 for a 
> dual CPU)
> 
> And i would like to know: why Dual, why nut. On the sun site i have 4 
> Servers to chosse from which one should i take, WHY?
> 
> Jan
> 
>>
>> 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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