Hi,
our master server needs to be replaced this year. At the moment we're running our environment on a Sun V490 with 8 CPUs. The big question is, if we should stay on SPARC or change to some x86-Hardware. The reason for thinking about the x86 is the EMM/Sybase component on the masterserver, which is said not to be multithreaded. So maybe a fast Opteron might improve the performance on this part.
What are your thoughts about this? Have you any experiences?
What about a combination of both, like running the master on the existing SPARC hardware and only moving the EMM to a different server?
Regards
Frerk