Suggestion for Dell Power Edge Server for Database

[Tom Brown]

> Once you get over the sticker shock of the SAN (prices can be from
> $10k-$100k), personally, this is the way I go if I needed to make a
> 99.999% available system.  Of course, you still have the OS and
> application to worry about affecting uptime, but SANs are very robust
> if you architect them right.

true - although clustering DB's on cheaper hardware is also a viable 
option depending on the db type