escott@shearson.com (E. Scott Menter) (03/29/91)
We need to support a bunch of databases that, combined, represent about 100 GB of information. Some percentage of this data will be "interactive" (that is, will require high speed query and update) while a larger percentage will be "historical" (in this case, still requiring high speed query but able to tolerate slower updates). By the time this is rolled out, our shop will have about 1,000 Sun workstations running applications that will be doing their best to pound whatever system we put into place right into the ground 8^). I'm looking for anybody with real-life experience with Unix systems supporting this kind of configuration. Besides performance issues, I'm *very* interested in stories about service, backup/recovery, archiving, and interoperability. No sales calls, please. I promise to summarize responses back to this list. Replies to me only, please (especially as I don't regularly read this group). Thanks in advance. -- E. Scott Menter, Vice President Manager, Information Resource Management Group Lehman Brothers Fixed Income Division escott@shearson.com
escott@govt.shearson.com ("E. Scott Menter, Manager, Information Resource Mgmt Group") (04/02/91)
We need to support a bunch of databases that, combined, represent about 100 GB of information (individual databases range from 0.1GB to 20.0GB). Some percentage of this data will be "interactive" (that is, will require high speed query and update) while a larger percentage will be "historical" (in this case, still requiring high speed query but able to tolerate slower updates). By the time this is rolled out, our shop will have about 1,000 Sun workstations running applications that will be doing their best to pound whatever system we put into place right into the ground 8^). I'm looking for anybody with real-life experience with Unix systems supporting this kind of configuration. Besides performance issues, I'm *very* interested in stories about service, backup/recovery, archiving, and interoperability. No sales calls, please. I promise to summarize responses back to this list. Replies to me only, please (especially as I don't regularly read this group). Thanks in advance. /\../\ /\../\ /\../\ /\../\ /\../\ /\../\ /\../\ /\../\ /\../\ /\../\ /\../\ E. Scott Menter, Vice President Manager, Information Resource Management Group Lehman Brothers Fixed Income Division escott@shearson.com