What is this server supposed to be doing? (What are the ALL OTHER APPS you
expect to put on E:)
If this is supposed to be the latest and greatest, here are some things I
would change or attempt to change.
- Use 64-bit Windows (preferably 2008 R2, but even 2003 R2 would be
acceptable for all this RAM)
- Use dual i7 CPU, preferably quad-core. Two of them.
- RAID10 requires an even # of disks (3x60GB won't work unless you mean
RAID1 with a local hotspare)
- I wouldn't put reporting databases on the same server as the primary
databases, but perhaps capacity is not a problem.
- You don't seem to need a separate volume for Indexing, but that is an
option.
- Use disk space more efficiently.
- C: 2ea x 146GB RAID1 for OS
- D: 2ea x 146GB RAID1 for SQL and other applications
- J: 4ea x 72GB (or 146GB) RAID10 for SQL databases
- L: 2ea x 72GB (or 146GB) RAID1 for Database Logs
- R: 2ea x 72GB (or 146GB) RAID1 for Reporting Databases (really
should be on different servers, but...)
- S: 4ea x 146GB (or 300GB) RAID5 for Database Backups (I'd put on a
NAS or some other less costly storage ideally, or make a smaller
partition
for the local backup copy that is copied off regularly)
Overall, it seems like a whole lot of complexity at the disk level for no
clear benefit. Did you obtain any metrics from perfmon to establish the
I/O needs? Or is this just a "if you build it, they will come" exercise?
That reminds me -- I need to update the following:
http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/Docs/?File=ServerSpecs.PDF<http://kb.ultratech-llc.com/Docs/?File=ServerSpecs.PDF>
5 years is a long time. (It's actually 3 years, but I never published those
other updates)
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:13 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is what I have:
> Production Server Specifications
>
>
> Purchased date 01/01/2008
> Make HP
> Model HP ProLiant DL580 G5
> Processor 2.40 Gigahertz Intel Xeon (4 installed)
> Memory 64 Gigabytes of RAM
> Hard Drive Space 3596 Gigabytes of Hard Drive Capacity
> Type of Drives SAS 15k
> Storage Controllers
> LSI Adapter, Ultra320 SCSI controller
> Smart Array P400 Controller X2
> Smart Array P800 Controller X2
> External Storage StorageWorks70 Modular Smart Array x2
>
> What I am looking for from any Make is the latest, greatest, and maximum
> of everything in all areas.
> Dual power supplies, Dual nics, etc...
> This machine is currently configured:
> C: Server 2003 Advanced Mirrored 1+1 (On the server )Bus0
> D: SQL 2005 Enterprise Mirrored 1+1 (On the server) Bus0
> E: All other Apps Raid 5 (On the server) Bus1
> J: Production Database File 60GB Raid 10 (1st StorageWorks Array)
> L: All Database Log Files size varies Raid 10 (2nd StorageWorks Arrary)
> R: Reporting Databases Files 3 x 60GB each Raid 10 (2nd StorageWorks
> Array)
> S: All Database Backup Files size varies Raid 10 (2nd StorageWorks
> Array)
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