Posted by Keith Smith on November 18, 2009 at 22:44:10:
In Reply to: ROBOCOPY posted by Keith Smith on November 03, 2009 at 22:20:51:
The TERA world is here!! Yester-year mega is being replaced with TERA. Backup and data warehousing is in order. Here's something I've found and I'm forewarding...
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Are you asking for specs to support 40 TB of drive space or 40 TB worth of databases?
If you're going to have 40 TB worth of drive space, then the storage sub-system you choose depends on what type of system these databases are going to support. Will it be OLTP or datawarehousing? If you're going to have high-transaction volume you're probably going to need SAN-based storage with fibre-channel drives. The more spindles the better. You may be able to get by with iSCSI if it's for reporting.
Server specs such as memory and CPU should probably be based off the number of users/transaction instead of the amount of drive space. I'd say that if you're planning on having 40 TB worth of databases, then you're going to have to get as much RAM and CPU's that you can afford.
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I'm reporting this, NOT suggesting!! What you say?? Got game?? Remembering WW II Tora, Tora, Tora?? Now it's Tera, Tera, Tera!! Backup and warehousing solutions for Comet on horizon. I'm already giving demo's. You??
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