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Operating Systems Solaris Sun hardware sizing Post 302477607 by tayyabq8 on Monday 6th of December 2010 02:10:52 AM

12-06-2010

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Sun hardware sizing

Hi,

Never worked with Sun, but I have been presented to make a decision about Sun server hardware, since the application which we'll be running is not so popular and you guys might not have idea, for reference I can tell you our competitor is running same application (business volume 10 times more than us) on following server:

Quote:

1. Model : Sun server V880
2. Processor/CPU : 6 x 900 MHz
3. Memory : 12 GB RAM
4. Internal Hard disk: 8 x 300G HDD

I'm not sure if V880 with above CPU speed is still available but I have been give a choice from following sun models:

1) Sun Sparc Enterprise M5000 Server
2) Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server
3) Sun Fire X4270 M2 Server
4) Sun Fire X4470 M2 Server
5) Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 Base Server

I am not sure about pricing of these models but I assume that they are all very high in specifications compared to V880, considering the experience of our competitor, I have no doubt that our application won't run on V880 but I think those are discontinued, which model you guys recommend which is next in the line to V880 and is cost effective as well? Our competitor is upgrading from V880 to M5000 in upcoming months but we may not need M5000 since our business volume is much lower than them, your expert advice would be highly appreciated.

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clprivnet

clprivnet(7)					     Sun Cluster Device and Network Interfaces					      clprivnet(7)

NAME

       clprivnet - SUNW,clprivnet Sun Cluster private network driver

SYNOPSIS

       /dev/clprivnet

DESCRIPTION

       Note -

	 Beginning  with  the Sun Cluster 3.2 release, Sun Cluster software includes an object-oriented command set. Although Sun Cluster software
	 still supports the original command set, Sun Cluster procedural documentation uses only the object-oriented command set. For more  infor-
	 mation about the object-oriented command set, see the Intro(1CL) man page.

       The  SUNW,clprivnet  Sun  Cluster  private  network driver is a STREAMS pseudo driver supporting Sun Cluster resident applications that use
       standard Solaris interfaces to communicate over the Sun Cluster private network. By striping data traffic over all links, this driver opti-
       mally utilizes the bandwidth of the private network while supporting highly available, software fault-tolerant communication.

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

       The driver is supported by the character-special device /dev/clprivnet, but is reserved for Sun Cluster internal operation and the standard
       Solaris network utilities. This interface must not be directly used for general application communication.

ADMINISTRATION

       The administration and configuration of the driver as a network interface is done completely by the Sun Cluster infrastructure internals.

FILES

       /dev/clprivnet

	   clprivnet special character device

       /usr/kernel/drv/clprivnet.conf

	   System-wide default device driver properties

Sun Cluster 3.2 						    05 Sep 2007 						      clprivnet(7)