Building a Tiny God
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:08 pm
Ok... it's not so tiny.
My boss came to me just before closing and asked if I could do a little task for her: Design an application server cluster, database server, and a SAN for an upcoming project.
She gave me a few specs that were vague at best and told me to run with it. I handed her an "estimated" bill of about $400,000 an hour and a half later (ending my 12 hour day).
Sure... that seems like a lot of money until you realize that it includes 4 application servers (with 4 3.0GHz processors each), a database server with 8 processors, more memory than you can shake a stick at, and a san with a total drive capacity of 16.8 terabytes (though we're going to run RAID-10, so that shrinks it down to 8.1 terabytes usable space).
To put that amount of drive space into perspective: A typical video store contains about 8 terabytes of video. The books in the largest library in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress, contain about 20 terabytes of text.
It's spiffy and stuffs... we should buy 2 (so I can take one home for testing).
My boss came to me just before closing and asked if I could do a little task for her: Design an application server cluster, database server, and a SAN for an upcoming project.
She gave me a few specs that were vague at best and told me to run with it. I handed her an "estimated" bill of about $400,000 an hour and a half later (ending my 12 hour day).
Sure... that seems like a lot of money until you realize that it includes 4 application servers (with 4 3.0GHz processors each), a database server with 8 processors, more memory than you can shake a stick at, and a san with a total drive capacity of 16.8 terabytes (though we're going to run RAID-10, so that shrinks it down to 8.1 terabytes usable space).
To put that amount of drive space into perspective: A typical video store contains about 8 terabytes of video. The books in the largest library in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress, contain about 20 terabytes of text.
It's spiffy and stuffs... we should buy 2 (so I can take one home for testing).
