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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:11 PM

hi there!

we have a problem with diskspace on our oracle testserver. the machine
is a sunfire v880 with a a5200 connected. the a 5200 has been fully
equipped with 33gb fcal disks, and - surprise - they are full

given the price for an additional a5200 with disks we called our sun
reseller to send us some alternative *cheap and good* storage
solutions.

they came up with
1. a sun storage containing scsi disks connected to the server vis
fibrechannel. costs about 22k euro
2. a "noname" storage containig sata disks connected to the server via
scsi. costs: 11k euro

i am not very experienced with sun hardware - but is'nt it possible to
simply add a scsi card to the testserver (move the a5200 to the
production server)? preferably a card with 2 external connectors so
we can use 2 19" cases with scsi disks and connect them directly to
the card.

any suggestions/www-links/brands are very welcome
greetings, ca mikusch

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:11 PM

user124 wrote:
> hi there!
>
> we have a problem with diskspace on our oracle testserver. the machine
> is a sunfire v880 with a a5200 connected. the a 5200 has been fully
> equipped with 33gb fcal disks, and - surprise - they are full

> given the price for an additional a5200 with disks we called our sun
> reseller to send us some alternative *cheap and good* storage
> solutions.
>
> they came up with
> 1. a sun storage containing scsi disks connected to the server vis
> fibrechannel. costs about 22k euro
> 2. a "noname" storage containig sata disks connected to the server via
> scsi. costs: 11k euro
>
> i am not very experienced with sun hardware - but is'nt it possible to
> simply add a scsi card to the testserver (move the a5200 to the
> production server)? preferably a card with 2 external connectors so
> we can use 2 19" cases with scsi disks and connect them directly to
> the card.
>
> any suggestions/www-links/brands are very welcome
> greetings, ca mikusch
>
Hi Mikusch,

you can add one ore more pci-scsi cards to the testserver (SFV880)

the following SCSI Cards are supported in the 880

- 501-6635 Dual Gigabit Ethernet/Dual SCSI PCI Adapter
- 375-0005 Dual Single Ended UW PCI Adapter
- 375-0006 Dual Differential UW PCI Adapter
- 501-5727 Dual Fast Ethernet Dual SCSI PCI Adapter

for more information have a look at

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub...ents.html#SCSI

if you install one of these cards, install the current driver patches
for SCSI (glm)

regards

Thomas

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:11 PM

user124 wrote:
> hi there!
>
> we have a problem with diskspace on our oracle testserver. the machine
> is a sunfire v880 with a a5200 connected. the a 5200 has been fully
> equipped with 33gb fcal disks, and - surprise - they are full

> given the price for an additional a5200 with disks we called our sun
> reseller to send us some alternative *cheap and good* storage
> solutions.

We use a lot of the Nexsan storage devices. Easy way to add
terabytes to a server on the cheap. The work well.

(btw... this is the ULTRA cheap soln.... but I've never lost
a drive yet and we've had some of our units for more than 2 years
now)

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which storage should i use?