Best Server?

Terry Inzauro tinzauro at ha-solutions.net
Mon Nov 29 03:33:50 CET 2004


http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=111394

I'm partial to Sun.  Their hardware is hard to beat in reliability and 
performance.


_Terry

Jan Scholten wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am in the glorious position to choose what kind of server should be 
> bought for the monitoring server. But actually i have no Idea where to 
> put stress on.
> 
> I am using Nagios 1.2 to monitor about 200 Hosts and 400 Services but 
> that will be alot ( maybe + 600 Services) more when everything is proper 
> configured.
> 
> Actually i am running Nagios on a Celeron 300 with 128 Meg under Debain 
> testing, works but starts lagging (load up to 15) and webside is kinda 
> slow.
> 
> So i got the following question from purchasing guy: What sort of spec 
> do you think would be appropriate? What make/model CPU? Single CPU or 
> multiple? How much RAM?
> 
> I believe because of the lots of spawned processes a Dual CPU would be 
> fine and some RAM. What would you recommend (be realistic i don't want 
> to have a Dual XXX that is idleing all the time)?
> 
> I was thinking about either a small Dual System (better opteron or 
> Xeon?) with around a gig of ram. Or a single AMD64 or P4 with a gig of RAM.
> 
> A configured Dell Server:
> Dual Xeon 2.8, 1 Gig Ram, 2 *40 GB Raid 1 Harddisks is about 1800 Euro.
> 
> a selfbuild P4 3.2 will be definitly cheaper :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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