Merlin Back Bigger Than Ever
Merlin is a Domino server running at StudioPlex that routes e-mail and hosts a few website. It has been plagued with hardware and virus problems. Over the holidays I rebuilt it. Merlin is now on an IBM Netfinity 5000 full-height rack mount, and it is the biggest tank of a computer I've had to pick up.
In the attached photo, the Netfinity is propped up sideways on my workbench. That's an Apple flat panel display on top. The CD drive is tray loaded, so that's why it is standing on its side. There are dual power supplies and cooling systems. (Danny noticed it is really noisy.) There are four hot-swappable hard disks. Ted was impressed this is a vintage 1999 machine. Merlin should be worth years more of service.
Notes from set up:
Windows 2000 installed (started w/ 4 boot floppies.)
Did a quick format on the 4 x 8 gig drives.
Used Disk Manager to Raid-5 last 3 drives to create a virtual 17.5 gig data partition.
Domino 6.5 w/ 6.5.1 upgrade.
NAV 2000
PC Anywhere 11
Zone Alarm firewall
Note: When upgrading Domino (6.5.1) all IBM Domino tasks have to be "relearned" by Zone Alarm because it spots the dates changing.
Two nics are now x.10 and x.11.
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