HA comparison comments

[Joe Lindsay]

I cannot speak for SGI's HA solutions, but we
have Origin 2000's with 4 CPU's and 512mb of memory
and Sun 4000's with 4 CPU's and 512mb of memory.
The Origins are an order of magnitude faster than
the Sun machines.  This is especially evident for
IO intensive applications (Disk IO).  I was the Sun
guy coming into an SGI shop and I have had to eat 
my words...The Origins are very fast, too bad there
is little 3rd party support for Irix....Joe

Debbie Nickerson Fowler wrote:
> 
> If this has already been discussed, please point me
> to the appropriate archive.
> 
> We are looking at SGI and Sun's HA solutions.
> 
> For the SGI, we have been quoted pricing for:
>         Two of the following:
>             Origin 2000 DS, 2XR10K, 180MHz, 1MB
>             Cache, 256 MB memory, 4.5 GB sys disk
> 
>         FibreVault with 10 8.8GB FC RAID disks
>         High Availability bundle for the Origin cluster
>         IRIS Failsafe
> 
> For the SUN, we are still awaiting pricing info, but
> are thinking of:
>         Two 3000 systems with comparable configs.
>         RSM Array 2000
>         Solstice HA
> Most of our servers within our laboratory are Sun. We have
> no experience with SGI servers. Does anyone know how these
> latest products compare? What has been the experience with
> service from SGI?
> 
> -Debbie Fowler
> dnfowler@cme.nist.gov
> National Institute of Standards and Technology
> Gaithersburg, MD