VA7100 for a my mail solution

[someone_4]

Hello everyone
I need to double confirm that this solutiuon will work for my mail solution.

1 - VA7100 w/ 7 73GB disks in a raid 10 with 1 hot spare.

2 - A5158A fiber channel adapters for L2000.
2 - 4 way L2000

Ok

I have mail1 ( primary ) and mail2 ( backup ).
Both connected to the raid VA7100.

They key here is to have both mail1 and mail2 be able to read the data from the VA7100.

If mail1 dies I can go to mail2 with minimal downtime. As long as all the mail data and configuration is in the raid.

Note the following:

The VA7100 is designed to communicate with multiple hosts and multiple systems, otherwise known
heterogeneous support. Any combination of the supported operating systems HP-UX, Windows
Solaris, AiX, NetWare, Windows 2000, and Linux can be used. Two different protocols, or host port
are used by the array to communicate with the operating systems: one protocol for Windows/Linux/
another for HP-UX. The Windows/Linux host port behaviors must be configured in the array for
communication to take place with any or all four supported operating systems on a controller.
the port protocol to Windows/Linux it does support concurrent operation with Windows/Linux and
The VA7100 provides simultaneous access by all of the supported operating systems on a LUN-by-
Each LUN operates appropriately given the description of the operating system requirements.


Basicly I am just looking to double or triple confirm that this will work before I buy the hardware.

Thanks
Richa

[James A. Donovan]

If you're going to have two A5158A's per host, then you'll want to add a 8-port FC switch into the mix. The VA7100 only provides to FC connections.

[someone_4]

hi

sorry i was misunderstoon it will be 1 A5158A per host. From my understandint the A5158A will give me 1gb of thoughput.

Richard

[James A. Donovan]

Then your selection of hardware looks OK. You may find this link on sendmail scalability of interest, it was based sendmail running on a Linux cluster, but the conclusions are pretty general....

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/sendmail/