[SunHELP] [Q] Need your suggestion to upgrade SUn server?

[Maarten Deen]

Bjorn Ramqvist:
> 
> Sorry to continue this non-sunrelated discussion, but what on EARTH is
> an ES160?
> That "preconfigured Oracle + ES40 thingy"? Can't remember I've ever
> heard of that model...
> (Incase you don't mean the GS160, which is way far into another league)

My bad. Yes I mean the GS160. Unfortunately the batteries on the digital
camera were  DOA or I would have had pictures.

Maarten

> Maarten Deen wrote:
> > 
> > Les:
> > 
> > > thus more spindles. The DBA standing next to me is saying
> > > "tell him more spindles, not bigger drives AND MORE RAM)
> > 
> > Hmm, heard that before. One of our warehouse management setups
> > is currently beating the crap out of 4 fully loaded DEC ES40's (we
> > tried replacing one with an 8-way ES160. Didn't work [1]). One of the
> > things running on these machines are two databases, the other are a
> > lot of processes with heavy logging. Compaq installed smaller disks
> > some time ago to get more spindles. It did make a difference.
> > 
> > Maarten
> > 
> > [1] An ES160 is basically 4xES40. The downpart is that they have to
> > synchronize. This takes one processor of each ES40. :-<
> > 
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