[2475] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: Plans for this fiscal year
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Sep 25 19:04:05 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:44:11 EDT."
<199609250244.WAA07225@planet-zorp.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:03:38 EDT
> So, I'd like to plan to, sometimes this year, replace ronald-ann with
> a new-ASO-configuration sparc 5: a sparc 5 with two SCSI busses and
> four 4GB disks. This will add 12GB to the cell, and get rid of one of
> our Decstations (a good thing since Decstations will become harder to
> support as time goes on). The four 1GB disks can be saved for spares.
*put on ASO hat*
FWIW: that ASO-config AFS server has 4 *2G* disks. We are
experimenting with 4G disks in the dev cell, but are having weird
timeout problems on the one machine that has them.
*put on SIPB hat*
Do people think we should try to replace both DEC AFS servers this
year, since it is unlikely that ASO will have DEC AFS servers at the
end of the fiscal year. If we did, we'd probably want to reuse rb's
disks tho.
> I think that will run about $10,000 (I don't remember the figures for
> file servers). I don't think we're likely to need to do anything else
> with AFS this year if we go with this plan. (If we don't go with this
> plan, we'll probably want to buy more disk some time this year.)
I think an AFS config SS5 w/o disks is ~7k. I haven't priced 4G disks
recently.
Jonathon
