Hey guys,
My boss has just told me that our team has been offered 3 old-ish Blade servers for our SQL Server use, which is hugely better than the 32-bit VMWare based SQL Server we are provided with right now.
I can build a home PC, troubleshoot, phase-cool overclock, etc but I respect that enterprise server solutions are a whole different ball game
We are being given 2 of these Poweredge systems:
Xeon X5650, 64GB RAM, 120GB HDD
And 1 of these:
Xeon X5650, 32GB RAM, 120GB HDD
What we want to do is perhaps combine these into one "uber" powerful SQL Server instance (maybe only the first two as a production environment and have the 3rd as a pre-prod). We have IT support etc but before I talk to them I was wondering I could get some thoughts from you guys who have experience in this sort of thing.
Our main uses are quite ad-hoc but heavily I/O intensive analytics, with an informal IIS server to boot for web based publishing (small-ish audience, no more than 1000 people total, most of them Exec with little tech knowledge). We'll be processing & building OLAP cubes on it in the near future also.
We will probably keep our existing virtual machine as an experimental sandbox.
Any advice would be hugely appreciated
My boss has just told me that our team has been offered 3 old-ish Blade servers for our SQL Server use, which is hugely better than the 32-bit VMWare based SQL Server we are provided with right now.
I can build a home PC, troubleshoot, phase-cool overclock, etc but I respect that enterprise server solutions are a whole different ball game
We are being given 2 of these Poweredge systems:
Xeon X5650, 64GB RAM, 120GB HDD
And 1 of these:
Xeon X5650, 32GB RAM, 120GB HDD
What we want to do is perhaps combine these into one "uber" powerful SQL Server instance (maybe only the first two as a production environment and have the 3rd as a pre-prod). We have IT support etc but before I talk to them I was wondering I could get some thoughts from you guys who have experience in this sort of thing.
Our main uses are quite ad-hoc but heavily I/O intensive analytics, with an informal IIS server to boot for web based publishing (small-ish audience, no more than 1000 people total, most of them Exec with little tech knowledge). We'll be processing & building OLAP cubes on it in the near future also.
We will probably keep our existing virtual machine as an experimental sandbox.
Any advice would be hugely appreciated
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