By desire of the gods and the ebays lords a bargain Sun Enterprise 250 arrived to my hands this week. The machine is equiped with 6x50GBytes SCSI HDs that can be setup in RAID 0, 1, 5 and 01 combinations and two Sparc 64bits CPUs with Solaris 10. The idea is to use it mainly for Zope/ZEO/Plone hostings. Anyone has experience or knows of sources of documentation for tunning a simmilar system to take the most of Zope (ZODB tricks, ZEO setup,...)? Thanks in advance for any help!
--On 14. Oktober 2005 20:24:28 +0200 Enrique Arizón <e_arizon_benito@yahoo.com> wrote:
By desire of the gods and the ebays lords a bargain Sun Enterprise 250 arrived to my hands this week.
The machine is equiped with 6x50GBytes SCSI HDs that can be setup in RAID 0, 1, 5 and 01 combinations and two Sparc 64bits CPUs with Solaris 10. The idea is to use it mainly for Zope/ZEO/Plone hostings.
I've seen worser hardware in my life. No idea what your goals are but you should start with a standard ZEO setup using one ZEO server and a ZEO client. Plone loves a lot of memory. When you run Zope/Plone then caching is likely more important than a perfect ZEO setup from the performance point of view. Such a setup always requires tweaking and tuning over a period of time. However this depends highly on your needs and goal. Andreas
--On 14. Oktober 2005 20:24:28 +0200 Enrique Arizón <e_arizon_benito@yahoo.com> wrote:
By desire of the gods and the ebays lords a bargain Sun Enterprise 250 arrived to my hands this week.
The machine is equiped with 6x50GBytes SCSI HDs that can be setup in RAID 0, 1, 5 and 01 combinations and two Sparc 64bits CPUs with Solaris 10. The idea is to use it mainly for Zope/ZEO/Plone hostings.
I've seen worser hardware in my life. No idea what your goals are but you should start with a standard ZEO setup using one ZEO server and a ZEO client. Plone loves a lot of memory. When you run Zope/Plone then caching is likely more important than a perfect ZEO setup from the performance point of view. Such a setup always requires tweaking and tuning over a period of time. However this depends highly on your needs and goal. Andreas
Enrique Arizón wrote:
By desire of the gods and the ebays lords a bargain Sun Enterprise 250 arrived to my hands this week.
The machine is equiped with 6x50GBytes SCSI HDs that can be setup in RAID 0, 1, 5 and 01 combinations and two Sparc 64bits CPUs with Solaris 10. The idea is to use it mainly for Zope/ZEO/Plone hostings.
Anyone has experience or knows of sources of documentation for tunning a simmilar system to take the most of Zope (ZODB tricks, ZEO setup,...)?
Having seen several senior ZC and ex-ZC employees openly laugh when it was explained that the storage servers for a large project were running on "Slowlaris", I'm not sure how much joy you'll have ;-) cheers, Chris - ever wondered why they were on eBay in the first place? -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
I'm not sure how difficult it is to install Linux on this h/w but if you can, this will make life easier for you in many ways in addition to being easier to host Plone/Zope
On 10/20/05, Nick Davis <nd51@le.ac.uk> wrote:
I'm not sure how difficult it is to install Linux on this h/w but if you can, this will make life easier for you in many ways in addition to being easier to host Plone/Zope
Debian is supposed to run fine. Also OpenBSD has a sparc port which could be an alternative. And new CPU boards cost, like, nothing, so it could be a pretty cool server. -- Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/ CPS Content Management http://www.cps-project.org/
Thanks for the replies. For now I'm going to try it with Solaris 10 for a few reasons: 1.- I try to get the most of its 6 SCSI discs, and the documentation I found for Solaris (http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520) was much better than similiar one for Linux, including optimizations for various scenarios (write intensive vs read intensive, small vs large reads,...). 2.- I'm also interested in checking DTrace (http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/dtrace.html), that has got really good press in the media. 3.- Solaris Containers (similar to Xen, but again better documented than Xen). Anyway it's true that for a "Linuxer" like me Solaris is hard and even ugly (it took me one full day to setup IPs&DNSs). If I success I will post a resume for reference. --- Lennart Regebro <regebro@gmail.com> escribió:
On 10/20/05, Nick Davis <nd51@le.ac.uk> wrote:
I'm not sure how difficult it is to install Linux on this h/w but if you can, this will make life easier for you in many ways in addition to being easier to host Plone/Zope
Debian is supposed to run fine. Also OpenBSD has a sparc port which could be an alternative. And new CPU boards cost, like, nothing, so it could be a pretty cool server. -- Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/ CPS Content Management http://www.cps-project.org/ _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Enrique Arizón wrote:
By desire of the gods and the ebays lords a bargain Sun Enterprise 250 arrived to my hands this week.
The machine is equiped with 6x50GBytes SCSI HDs that can be setup in RAID 0, 1, 5 and 01 combinations and two Sparc 64bits CPUs with Solaris 10. The idea is to use it mainly for Zope/ZEO/Plone hostings.
Anyone has experience or knows of sources of documentation for tunning a simmilar system to take the most of Zope (ZODB tricks, ZEO setup,...)?
Having seen several senior ZC and ex-ZC employees openly laugh when it was explained that the storage servers for a large project were running on "Slowlaris", I'm not sure how much joy you'll have ;-) cheers, Chris - ever wondered why they were on eBay in the first place? -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
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