hi all. i know the basic question is a tired one, so feel free to ignore. i'm hoping someone can provide a recommendation based on real-world experience with smartos and this particular software stack: windows server 2008/2012 with sybase ads, for a small office client/server application.
i have a small customer (15 desktops) whose business is totally managed by a single client/server application. the latest version of the application has moved to using a sybase ads backend. the end-user software runs on a terminal server, as before, so i already have that covered. what i do not have covered is the hardware for the new sybase ads portion. the vendor requires windows 2008/2012 (standard or essentials) for their propriety installation/configuration of the sybase database and their related update/backup/management tools. i have smartos successfully running in several places with small services (samba3 domain controller, webserver, zimbra on linux vm, and a few windows vms running terminal services for applications). these work great, with disk performance being the only remotely questionable aspect. i do not have experience with large i/o workloads. there are a *lot* of conversations on the list with varying recommendations/suggestions for different situations. the most straight forward of the suggestions are "use the hardware joyent uses in their datacenters" and "test it yourself and go from there" ... this being a small customer (and myself just being a consultant) makes affording enterprise-grade hardware a challenge. so i'm hoping someone can recommend a known-working configuration that would allow a windows server kvm running sybase database to perform decently on smartos. the less expensive the better, of course. and if your recommendation is to skip smartos and go with a bare metal install, i'd like to hear that as well. it's not what i want to end up with, but that doesn't mean it's not the right answer. not everything works well virtualized, and with the kvm serial-disk-access issue i've read about i realize that might be the case here. thanks for your insight. -dewey ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
