Re: Scaling further up

From: "Anjan Dave" <adave(at)vantage(dot)com>
To: "Rod Taylor" <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: "Chris Ruprecht" <chris(at)ruprecht(dot)org>, <fred(at)redhotpenguin(dot)com>, "William Yu" <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com>, "Postgresql Performance" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Scaling further up
Date: 2004-03-02 23:24:40
Message-ID: 4BAFBB6B9CC46F41B2AD7D9F4BBAF78508C8F1@vt-pe2550-001.vantage.vantage.com
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Can you describe the vendors/components of a "cheap SAN setup?"

Thanks,
Anjan

-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Taylor [mailto:pg(at)rbt(dot)ca]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:57 PM
To: Scott Marlowe
Cc: Anjan Dave; Chris Ruprecht; fred(at)redhotpenguin(dot)com; William Yu;
Postgresql Performance
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Scaling further up

> For speed, the X86 32 and 64 bit architectures seem to be noticeable
> faster than Sparc. However, running Linux or BSD on Sparc make them
> pretty fast too, but you lose the fault tolerant support for things
like
> hot swappable CPUs or memory.

Agreed.. You can get a Quad Opteron with 16GB memory for around 20K.

Grab 3, a cheap SAN and setup a little master/slave replication with
failover (how is Slony coming?), and you're all set.

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