Solaris

Hi Experts,

we are planning to upgrade the End of life servers to new servers and from solaris 8/9 to 11. Server loads are minimum and not heavily loaded. After analysis we came to conclusion
to use the below. Can experts out there please let me know whether it make sense or any way we can reduce the cost by using other servers ? suggestions welcome and Thanks for your time

current estimated costs comes to huge amount in several thousands pounds.

Existing Server New Device Purpose Server Type
SF280R/1x900+/1GB/1x36/DVD/OS Sun Fire X4170 Web Server Physical server
E220R 450MHz 1GB 2-36GB 1PS Sun Fire X4170 Jump Server(used as base to go to other server) Physical server
E220R 450MHz 1GB 2-36GB 1PS Sun Fire X4170 Jump Server(used as base to go to other server) Physical server
E220R 450MHz 1GB 2-36GB 1PS Sun Fire X4170 Jump Server(used as base to go to other server) Physical server
EOL Netra t1 AC 360Mz 512M/
SF280R/1x900+/1GB/1x36/DVD/OS Netra SPARC T4-1 server Squid Proxy / DNS Bind Server / Iplanet Virtualised server
Sun Fire V120 650Mz 1GB 2x36G /
SUNFIRE V100 Netra SPARC T4-1 server DNS Bind / NTP Server Virtualised server

Many Thanks in Advance,
sundba

Do those jump servers need to be in separate locations? Maybe you could consolidate all of those servers into single T4-1 running several LDOMs or zones?

Hi Bartus11,

Thanks for your reply. Yes it needs to be in different locations.'Consolidating in single T4-1' i am not sure really, because few of the servers cater corporate network and
few does the internet. Will T4-1 will be able to take all the load ?

Thanks
SD

Compared to your current servers? Easily It also has four build in network cards so network separation shouldn't be a problem. If the jump servers have to be separated, then you can still consolidate remaining servers and maybe one jumppoint? The thing is... you have two DNS servers. If it is because of the redundancy then you will need separate server for that too. Anyway, you could easily migrate all those servers to a single T4-1 and there would still be alot of power left