Suggestion for Dell Power Edge Server for Database

[Greg Dickie]

ditto. I do not agree at all. Dell have been great with us. I have dealt
with IBM, SUN and SGI in the past, Dell is every bit as good and MUCH
less expensive.

Greg


On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 09:41 -0400, Peter J Milanese wrote:
> I do not agree with this assessment at all. Also, all major vendors are desktop also. Well, except for ibm now (theoretically).
> 
> I run about 90 dell boxes of all sizes. Farms, databases (oracle/sql/mysql), finance, heavy graphics processing (automations), and just about everything else.
> 
> They are solid with few exceptions. 
> 
> I recently killed a couple of e4500 oracle boxes and went with 6850s.
> 
> Actually, the only sun boxes I keep are for dns and legacy apps.
> 
> 
> -----------------
> Sent from my NYPL BlackBerry Handheld. 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ross levins" [rlevins at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 07/13/2006 01:33 AM
> To: blenard at techminds4hire.com; bgercken at comcast.net
> Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for Dell Power Edge Server for Database
> 
> 
> 
> I think Dell is OK if you are small businees and/or 24/7 is not that 
> important. For critical apps which are needed on 24/7 it may be a risky 
> decision to switch to dell or any desktop vendors.
> 
> 
> >From: Benjamin Lenard <blenard at techminds4hire.com>
> >To: Bill Gercken <bgercken at comcast.net>
> >CC: linux poweredge <linux-poweredge at dell.com>
> >Subject: Re: Suggestion for Dell Power Edge Server for Database
> >Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:20:32 -0500
> >
> >I'm not sure if Infomix supports this, we're a Oracle shop.
> >EMC storage will cost $10K +.   It depends on how much space, what
> >type of performance, etc... You'll also need a fibre switch.  As I
> >tell people, do you real know what mission critical, 24/7 costs?
> >
> >
> >
> >On Jul 11, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Bill Gercken wrote:
> >
> > > Thats a thought. At the moment it is all internal RAID on the
> > > 450's. What is the price point for such a system?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -bill
> > >
> > > On Jul 11, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Benjamin Lenard wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Are you using a SAN for shared diskspace?  We use EMC SAN systems
> > >> connected via fibre.
> > >>
> > >> Ben
> > >>
> > >> On Jul 11, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Bill Gercken wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> I have been tasked to select the hardware to replace our aging Sun
> > >>> E-450s with Dell Hardware.
> > >>> We will be running a transactional database (Informix 10) running on
> > >>> Red Hat ES4.
> > >>> These are mission critical servers, that need to be online 24x7 with
> > >>> zero down time, with replication to external servers.
> > >>> With all the concerns regarding the PERC controllers going around on
> > >>> the list (2850's etc.), I want to make sure that I don't choose a
> > >>> lemon.
> > >>> Is there a basic rule of thumb when choosing such a server (i.e. N/
> > >>> transactions per second requires N/CPUS, with blah)?
> > >>> Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.
> > >>>
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>> -bill
> > >>>
> > >>> _______________________________________________
> > >>> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
> > >>> Linux-PowerEdge at dell.com
> > >>> http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
> > >>> Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
> >Linux-PowerEdge at dell.com
> >http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
> >Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
> 
> _________________________________________________________________
> Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! 
> http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
> Linux-PowerEdge at dell.com
> http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
> Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
> Linux-PowerEdge at dell.com
> http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
> Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
-- 
Greg Dickie
just a guy
Maximum Throughput