We have a server, it's a double dual core 2 1.6GHz, 8 GB RAM, with two 10k drive in Raid 1...
We have a lot of stuff on it, sharing folders essentially, EPDM and we are planing to put a ERP on it.
Right now, we see a bit of sluggishness when we are using the EPDM. My boss asked me to look at upgrading the server... but I was wondering if it worth it or not?
We have a quotatiion from Dell, a quad core X5504 (4 core, 4 thread, Nehalem/i7 architecture) with 6GB ram (actually don't think the 8GB actually worth it... as it is just for file acess etc, still, can upgrade it later), with the same 10k drive in Raid 1.
How does EPDM span with cpu? should we upgrade the drive instead... maybe it's a better idea...
Does anyone has experience upgrading a server with EPDM on it?
Thanks
Hi Valentin,
We just upgraded ours two weeks ago. The database and archive servers were on the same physical machine and the archive was running out of space. So, our reason for the upgrade was two fold; split the two servers to two physical machines and to add more disk space on the current archive server. You definitely want a lot of horsepower on the database server because SQL is a processor hog. After splitting the servers (which was the hard part) we discovered Windows server 2008 has utilities to expand the drives on the fly without messing with the data.
We planned and tested for several weeks for the upgrade and when it came down to it we still ran into issues. The hardest part about the split was configuring all the replicated servers and client machines to point to the new database server.
But I will say one thing, ever since we performed the upgrade and worked out all the bugs that took 3 days), my phone immediately stopped ringing from engineering.
Not sure if that answered your question.
Lucas