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194 Part III: Planning <strong>and</strong> Deployment<br />

Hardware Recommendations<br />

The reference configurations for front-end Web <strong>and</strong> search servers in the server farm<br />

are given in the following paragraphs.<br />

For a combination of a front-end Web server with a search server (2 servers),<br />

you following configuration was used:<br />

■ 2 x 2.8-GHz Xeon processors with 512-kilobyte (KB) Cache<br />

■ ServerWorks GC-LE chipset, supporting a 400-megahertz (MHz) FSB<br />

■ 2-GB main memory exp<strong>and</strong>able to 6 GB<br />

■ Embedded Wide Ultra3 Smart Array 5i RAID controller<br />

■ 4 x 18.2-GB Ultra3 SCSI disks<br />

■ 2x embedded BCM5703 10/100/1000-GB Ethernet network interface card<br />

(NIC) ports<br />

■ Redundant power supply <strong>and</strong> fan<br />

For a server used as an index management <strong>and</strong> job server (1 server), the following<br />

configuration was used:<br />

■ 2 x 2.8-GHz Xeon processors with 512-KB CacheServerWorks GC-LE chipset,<br />

supporting a 400-MHz FSB<br />

■ 2-GB main memory exp<strong>and</strong>able to 6 GB<br />

■ Embedded Wide Ultra3 Smart Array 5i RAID controller<br />

■ 6 x 36.4-GB Ultra320 SCSI disks<br />

■ 2x embedded BCM5703 10/100/1000-GB Ethernet NIC ports<br />

■ Redundant power supply <strong>and</strong> fan<br />

For a SQL Server–based database server (active/passive; 2 servers), the following<br />

configuration was used:<br />

■ 4 x 2.8-GHz Xeon processors with 512-KB CacheServerWorks GC-LE chipset,<br />

supporting a 400-MHz FSB<br />

■ 2-GB main memory exp<strong>and</strong>able to 6 GB<br />

■ Embedded Wide Ultra3 Smart Array 5i RAID controller<br />

■ Smart Array 5300 controller<br />

■ 4 x 18.2-GB Ultra3 SCSI disks<br />

■ 14 x 72.8-GB Ultra320 SCSI disks with a SCSI-connected clustered storage subsystem<br />

(which supports up to 14 disks with HP Smart Array cluster storage)<br />

■ 2x NC3163 Fast Ethernet ports<br />

■ Redundant power supply <strong>and</strong> fan

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