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Okai all, last day of term, and my last day in my current job, the kids are all enjoying assembly and were finishing the last few jobs off, and what a better time than to show how much we care for our servers than ensure they celebrate Christmas! So here you are hope you all ensure your servers have a very merry Christmas PS - I even provided them with my replacement, the item all IT Departments need the infamous Crystal Ball

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Hi all, Am developing a proposal to update our core server infrastructure as they are over 6 years old now. I have about 1000 student users and 100 staff, and host an exchange server which at present only has staff mailboxes, but will very soon have student mailboxes too. The exchange server is very much up to the task however. I would like to give every student 1Gb storage, and want to optimise the bandwidth available for file serving. I am thinking of two options at the moment: Option 1 is made up from separate rackmount servers. 2 domain controllers and 5 file servers, one for each intake year, dishing out their my docs. Each server would have 250Gb RAID 5 and 2 nics. Option 2 is to whack in a bladecenter S with all 6 blades. Virtualise one powerful blade into two domain controllers and then the other 5 less powerful blades act as profile servers. Allow the 5 profile servers to make use of the shared storage for docs and have their own internal drives for the OS. I prefer option 2 as it is more expandable, takes less cab space, uses less power etc. But have two concerns. 1 - am I wasting the power and flexibility of the blades by using them as file servers and missing the ethos of the blade; and 2 - what it the performance like when the 5 blades are using the same discs? Would be interested to hear what other people use as their core server infrastructure, and any views on the two options above. The third option I suppose is to get a totally separate SAN and maybe 3 very high powered rackmount servers and then virtualise the whole shebang, but I think that may be a bit too expensive. Cheers!

Does anyone Know how to access the OBP on a sun blade 2000 without an sun type 6 usb keyboard. It is automatically booting solaris and I need to make it boot from the cd with the "boot cdrom" command from the OBP if I can just get to it !