We had 6 O200s Cray-linked into three nodes in an CXFS cluster to run an appletalk server backed by clarion arrays. While there were serious limits caused by the single metadata server, XVM and CXFS were better than anything provided by Veritas or the other major UNIX vendors of the day.
The Fibre Channel XIO boards were really needed back then for that application as PCI was still way too slow.
I was sad to know that when I left that job that SGI server was being replaced and the support personal at SGI were going to lose their jobs too.
The Fibre Channel XIO boards were really needed back then for that application as PCI was still way too slow.
I was sad to know that when I left that job that SGI server was being replaced and the support personal at SGI were going to lose their jobs too.