Upgrading our system

30 Sep 2005 7:01 AM

Enric

Dear folks,

Nowadays, we have got an Active-Active cluster for to attend our business as
usual. Each node own the following main features:

-8 processors xeon 700 Mhz
-8 Gb RAM
-RAID 5 (up to 400 gb ) 12 disks approx.
-OS 32 bit (Advanced Server)
-Sql2000k with sp3

-Quorum disk have 36,6 GB
-Our growing per week is almost 50 gb.
-Databases are forty.

The above configuration was bough five years ago, so that, which could be a
good migration of this hardware?
We are thinking over to buy Itanium but we don't know if TCO is good with
such growing of data.
Maybe a good solution will be buy 64-bit hardware and by the moment to
install our sql2000k and within six months or so (when SP1 for sql server
2005 is released) move the data to that version.

Any input will be greatly.

Regards,

30 Sep 2005 7:15 AM

Mike Epprecht (SQL MVP)

No SP1 for SQL Server 2005 is expected very soon. Got 12-18 months to wait?

One thing for sure, getting rid of RAID-5 in favor of RAID-10 would do a lot
for performance.

Looks like you are NT 4.0, so in effect, your are running un-supported as it
is End of Life.

If your applications can handle it, got SQL Server 2005 on 7 November 2005
with new hardware.

Regards
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Zurich, Switzerland

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"Enric" <En***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Dear folks,
>
> Nowadays, we have got an Active-Active cluster for to attend our business
> as
> usual. Each node own the following main features:
>
> -8 processors xeon 700 Mhz
> -8 Gb RAM
> -RAID 5 (up to 400 gb ) 12 disks approx.
> -OS 32 bit (Advanced Server)
> -Sql2000k with sp3
>
> -Quorum disk have 36,6 GB
> -Our growing per week is almost 50 gb.
> -Databases are forty.
>
> The above configuration was bough five years ago, so that, which could be
> a
> good migration of this hardware?
> We are thinking over to buy Itanium but we don't know if TCO is good with
> such growing of data.
> Maybe a good solution will be buy 64-bit hardware and by the moment to
> install our sql2000k and within six months or so (when SP1 for sql server
> 2005 is released) move the data to that version.
>
> Any input will be greatly.
>
> Regards,
>