How to consolidate 6 sqlservers to a 2-node cluster ?

  • I currently have to define the hardware-needs to consolidate 6 win2000 sql2000 sqlservers (5 oltp/ 1 olap) to a 2-node cluster environment. (total start capacity 200Gb affective data expected to extend the olap part from 1 year of data to as much the drives (san) can take.)

    I hope to be able to implement 64-bit (SS2005) with this occasion, but for that I have to deliver a TCO/ROI kind of report.

    I currently started some perfmon en profiler traces to gather the numbers.

    Do you have any templates, guidelines to handle these kind of requests ?

    I already like the doc provided in the forum's Project Plan

     

    Johan

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  • One set of cost savings for your ROI calcs, are going from licensing for 6 instances of SQL to 2.

    Beyond that I can't provide much insight other than - be careful and make sure you have plenty of capacity to run all 6 on 1 node when failover occurs. Are you going with Active/Passive, or Active/Active. Either way, be prepared for having plenty of capacity to run on 1 node.

    Best of Luck

    ChrisB MCDBA OCP MyDatabaseAdmin.com

    Chris Becker bcsdata.net

  • Thanks for your input.

    That is indeed a section that is in my checklist

    Johan

    Learn to play, play to learn !

    Dont drive faster than your guardian angel can fly ...
    but keeping both feet on the ground wont get you anywhere :w00t:

    - How to post Performance Problems
    - How to post data/code to get the best help[/url]

    - How to prevent a sore throat after hours of presenting ppt

    press F1 for solution, press shift+F1 for urgent solution 😀

    Need a bit of Powershell? How about this

    Who am I ? Sometimes this is me but most of the time this is me

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