Butuz Posted November 7, 2008 Posted November 7, 2008 Make sure you use Raid5 with hot spare rather than raid 1 - this will increase your database read speed considerably, and reads is probably at least 3/4 of all IO operations on the sims database, whilst still keeping lots of nice redundancy.
dhicks Posted November 7, 2008 Posted November 7, 2008 Raid5 with hot spare rather than raid 1 - this will increase your database read speed considerably Why? -- David Hicks
Hecate Posted November 9, 2008 Posted November 9, 2008 (edited) recent experience recommends mirroring the OS drive as well as a separate RAID for the data. You should also have a separate drive for the transaction logs as this will improve performance. Just for comparison; we are currently running SIMS on a temporary server with a 2.5 dual core cpu and 2Gb RAM without any undue stress on the server and none of the users has noticed much loss of performance. This is in a school of 1300 pupils. We hope we don't have to stick with this for more than a few days but it is an interesting observation. Edited November 9, 2008 by Hecate
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