Re: wanted: a REALISTIC server recommendation

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:53:16 -0800, Brian wrote:

> The EMC is the lowest end storage EMC sells and it's 450GB for $6000.
> The logic? most commision for the vendor, maybe?

That's only 12x the price for same amount of 'consumer' low end storage. Not bad <g>

You still should check with the vendor for reasons for the suggestion. It's always best to have the vendor justify their recommendation - on paper.  

> One server will do both the apps and the db. currently the jobs are
> split between two servers.

In which case, I'd consider 8GB is probably reasonable for now. Just watch that you don't overallocate SGA size. For your user population, I'd probably start with less than 1GB SGA.

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