Database Server Config for Performance

  • I have a new box, 2 processors 64-bit running Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise with three disk:

    Disk0 C: (Boot, system files) 39.6GB Free 79GB Total

    Disk1 E: (Page file) 33.9GB Free 289GB Total

    Disk2 D: 283 GB Free 299GB Total

    This will be a dedicated SQL Server running 2008 R2, with a small/medium workload for OLTP (100 users not concurrent).

    Would it be better to have the disk set up with the OS having 2 disks on RAID1, the logs files also RAID1 with 2 disks and SQL data on RAID5 (preferably RAID10) with a minimum of three disks. Please offer any suggestion that will help performance.

  • kd11 (11/14/2012)


    I have a new box, 2 processors 64-bit running Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise with three disk:

    Disk0 C: (Boot, system files) 39.6GB Free 79GB Total

    Disk1 E: (Page file) 33.9GB Free 289GB Total

    Disk2 D: 283 GB Free 299GB Total

    This will be a dedicated SQL Server running 2008 R2, with a small/medium workload for OLTP (100 users not concurrent).

    Would it be better to have the disk set up with the OS having 2 disks on RAID1, the logs files also RAID1 with 2 disks and SQL data on RAID5 (preferably RAID10) with a minimum of three disks. Please offer any suggestion that will help performance.

    2 things:

    Sufficient ram to hold all of the working set in memory.

    A raid controller that does battery backed write caching.

    Also, how big is your paging file? properly configured SQL servers should use very little of the page file.

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