ARS 7, Windows server capacity info pleaseI'm not really big on Windows OS, but one recommendation I could offer is give Windows 2003 64 bit / MS-SQL 2005 64 bit a shot.. I've just heard from support that there are no known issues running ARS on this environment.. Reason this would be a better choice over a 32 bit environment is that to the best of my knowledge 64 bit Win OS can better manage higher memory boxes than its 32 bit counterpart..
I'm not quite sure about how accurate the source of this information is as I heard it from a Windows administrator and haven't really read any white papers or tech notes on it.. Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anderson, Douglas W. Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: ARS 7, Windows server capacity info please ** Hi ARSListers, We are moving from all-custom applications on Solaris/Sybase/ARS 6.3 to a mix of custom applications and ITSM 7 on Windows Server/MS SQL/ARS 7.x. We need to support 200-400 concurrent users, 75-150 of whom are using the WUT and the others on mid tier. Our Windows Server team would appreciate some real-world input on server sizing. I have searched the ARSList archives extensively (exhaustingly, if not necessarily exhaustively) and found relatively little guidance on this topic for current ARS versions. I did find a response from James McKenzie back in November '06 and one from Christopher Strauss in February '07 that shed some indirect light on the subject. Thanks gents for those. If you are running ARS 7.x on Windows servers, would you be so kind as to share your experience regarding the following? What is your user load & application mix? What hardware are you using (CPU type & count, clock speeds, RAM, etc.) for Windows servers, for which bits of the puzzle (ARS server, mid tier, database server). How are the bits combined on, or separated between, server hardware? Are you using load balancing hardware/software? If so, what/where? What typical and peak-load response time,s or other performance metrics, do you observe (WUT vs. mid tier)? Thanks for any clues, Doug Anderson Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.2/766 - Release Date: 4/18/2007 7:39 AM _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
