OV SAM for small SANs

[Esteban Essed]

Hello,

I'm designing a new OV SAM infrastructure and I'm wondering about the system load OV SAM generates for small SANs.

Our situation is like this: We have about 20 offices throughout the Netherlands, each has its own small SAN including one XP512 and average 10 hosts connected. The SANs are not connected to each other. Also the management ports of the switches and the XP are on a local LAN, not directly accessable through our WAN.

Each location has a pc for managing the local SAN running Commmand View XP and Remote Control XP. We access the management PC's through our WAN using Terminal Server. The pc's are 2Ghz P-IV with 1024MB memory.

I'm wondering if I can run OV SAM on the existing management pc's without degrading performance of the other applications running on it.

Or should I buy 20 new pc's, one for each location, even though they will each monitor only 10 hosts, a few switches and the XP512.

Next to this we will have some dedicated OV SAM servers in our main office as we have larger SANs in our main office with XP512s and a XP1024.

Can anyone say anything about this?

Kind Regards,
Esteban Essed.

[Steven Clementi]

I believe the memory requirements for Running OVSAM 3.x is a bare minimum 1GB. Since yo uhave only 1GB in the management PC's, you would probably need a memory upgrade in them. The processor fine and should not bauk too much. memory is the main issue as i understand it.


Steven

[Esteban Essed]

Yes, I read about the 1GB minimum. I'm wondering because with this minimum you're supposed to be able to handle up to 100 hosts.
But because the other applications also have to run comfortably I think I take your advice of getting a memory upgrade.