Re: [ADMIN] Off-topic - Hardware recommendation

2009-07-29 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Mittwoch 29 Juli 2009 Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > My question deals more than anything on the Fibre Channel host > adapter - is anyone using a Finre Channel adapter on FreeBSD which > they can recommend? We have two HP DL 385 accessing a Fibre Channel Subsystem http://www.starline.de/infortren

Re: [ADMIN] Off-topic - Hardware recommendation

2009-07-29 Thread Kevin Grittner
"Benjamin Krajmalnik" wrote: > The nature of the application dictates that we use shared storage to > provide high availability (in case one of the servers has a > failure). At the risk of starting a flame war, I'd suggest that you compare the cost and benefit of the proposed solution to repl

Re: [ADMIN] Off-topic - Hardware recommendation

2009-07-29 Thread Alan McKay
You are probably best off asking this on a FreeBSD list. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgr

[ADMIN] Off-topic - Hardware recommendation

2009-07-29 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
I apologize for the slightly off-topic question. I will be building a new PostgreSQL server running 8.4 on FreeBSD 7.2 64-bit. The nature of the application dictates that we use shared storage to provide high availability (in case one of the servers has a failure). After doing some research in t