I managed to get mod_status and mod_info put into place on our MyWeb servers. It was interesting to set up, and I'm glad I got that in there. Mod_status provides a basic view of how busy the server really is at that point in time. And so far, they aren't very busy. Fun stuff.
The Scalar 100 was racked today. I also learned that the other administrator was planning on having all four of the backup servers drive one of the drives in this system. I wish he would have told me that, since that particular setup would have ended up costing us around $12,000 more in hardware and software costs. He was, as they say, not pleased. Now we get to figure out how to drive a centralized backup server with responsibility to back up everything Windows/netware on a single server.
There are some real I/O problems with this. For one, with four drives the SCSI card in question has the potential to take up a good chunk of PCI-bus just on that; 64-bit scsi would be a good idea here. Since all of the backup duties will be remote, we get to cram that stream over the ethernet. The network really would benefit from a gigabit NIC, since we have the potential of four separate streams coming down a 100 megabit NIC we WILL get contention and the higher speed is needed. And since we don't really have a server beefy enough to drive it by itself, we're going to have to live with bottlenecking on the PCI bus.
Oh, this will be fun.
The Scalar 100 was racked today. I also learned that the other administrator was planning on having all four of the backup servers drive one of the drives in this system. I wish he would have told me that, since that particular setup would have ended up costing us around $12,000 more in hardware and software costs. He was, as they say, not pleased. Now we get to figure out how to drive a centralized backup server with responsibility to back up everything Windows/netware on a single server.
There are some real I/O problems with this. For one, with four drives the SCSI card in question has the potential to take up a good chunk of PCI-bus just on that; 64-bit scsi would be a good idea here. Since all of the backup duties will be remote, we get to cram that stream over the ethernet. The network really would benefit from a gigabit NIC, since we have the potential of four separate streams coming down a 100 megabit NIC we WILL get contention and the higher speed is needed. And since we don't really have a server beefy enough to drive it by itself, we're going to have to live with bottlenecking on the PCI bus.
Oh, this will be fun.