Design for a largish Cyrus server

2005-12-14 Thread Gary Mills
Our current SMTP and IMAP server is a Sun V480 with 4 CPUs and 16 GB of memory. It's running Solaris 9. It has 300 GB of IMAP storage on two 12-disk hardware RAID arrays. This contains about 30,000 mailboxes. There are about 1200 simultaneous IMAP sessions at the busiest time of the day. It's

Re: Design for a largish Cyrus server

2005-12-14 Thread Jure Pečar
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:22:37 -0600 Gary Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to leave SMTP on the V480 and add a 2-node load-balancing cluster for IMAP. Each of the two servers would be a Sun V440 with 4 CPUs and 16 GB of memory. They would run Solaris 10. Sun's QFS would provide shared

Re: Design for a largish Cyrus server

2005-12-14 Thread Patrick Radtke
On Dec 14, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Jure Pečar wrote:About iSCSI ... any expirience with it? I know throughput is good enough, but what about latencies? Are they comparable with local disks or fibrechannel?I attended a "iSCSI is great" seminar last week, where a similar question was raised.Their answer