Re: Scaling further up

Can you describe the vendors/components of a "cheap SAN setup?"

Thanks,
Anjan

-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Taylor [mailto:pg@rbt.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:57 PM
To: Scott Marlowe
Cc: Anjan Dave; Chris Ruprecht; fred@redhotpenguin.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.