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Am Freitag, 17. Oktober 2003 09:55 schrieb Resi W:
> Hi,
  
> My company is planning to deploy a SAPDB based web server in a few month. The server 
> will be accessed by approx 500-1000 users perday. And millions of records.
  
> Can someone in SAP team or someone with experiences share their experience on an 
> ideal hardware configurations ?

A Linux  MP (AMD/Intel) System will do.
The bottle neck is the physical Ram (and the speed of the
Ram/memory transferrates) of the server hardware.

The user Load 500-1000 Users/a day is easy to handle,
do you have an idea howmany users will be "online" synchrounously ?
It's IMHO a good idea to plan 16MB of physical Ram for each
physical User/synchronously, the Ram amount for each user
lowers if there are plenty useres. In this case there should be a
"cache configuration optimisation be made" (Try-out).

> I've browsed thru and only found some on data volume and log volume, that is Raid 1 
> for data volume, Log mode dual, on seperate drives.

I'd suggest to use Hardware RAID drives.
Depending on the budget my choice for the Harddisk system are:
1. ICP-Vortex SCSI (->http://www.icp-cortex.com ) really good HW-Raidcontrollers, no
problems at all.
2. ICP-Vortex SATA
3. 3Ware IDE-Hardware Raid (runns perfectliy in linux, uses cheap IDE harddisks)

To my expierience I'd choose a Debian 3.0r1 System using XFS Filesystem for the
operating system work, and putting the production Database on a 2nd harddisk system,
a 2nd controller.
The Database should work on "raw" partitions, to avoid overhead in os-filesystem work.

As last option to optimize you can put the LOG spaces to an 3rd Harddisksystem.

So we have an idea for a fine server:
        4 CPUs (don't forget to tune SapDB for 4 Cpu usage!)
        2-4 GB of RAM, more possible if an Opteron is in duty.
        2 HW-Raidsystems, hot-plugable disks
        fast NIC(s)

Software:
        Debian 3.0/r1 (Reason: secure, reliable, fast, working live-update, heavy load 
proven)
        Filesystem: XFS with distributed Journaled Logs for optimal OS-PErformance
        Kernel: Linux 2.4.21-xfs, (2.4.22-xfs if Nvidia Mainboard Chipset and IDE 
needed)
        SapDB Debian package is supplied by us.

mfG
        J�rgen
        automatiX Linux  Support Crew
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