New dedicated server

• Garutyunyan

  SSCrazy

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  April 15, 2008 at 4:48 pm

  #189154

  Hi all,

  I just started at this company and I've been tasked with monitoring and coming up with recommendations for a dedicated SQL Server 2005 machine, used by less than 50 users and not a lot of transactions. It's for a mission-critical financial application package from Microsoft. I'm thinking HP ProLiant DL380 G5.

  2 x Quad-Core Xeon 3.16 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB

  10GB RAM

  2x72GBx15K RPM - RAID 1 (OS)

  2x72GBx15K RPM - RAID 1 (Tempdb)

  2x146GBx10K RPM - RAID 1 (.MDF)

  2x146GBx10K RPM - RAID 1 (.LDF)

  Has anyone done something similar to this, and/or is there a different configuration recommendation for improved performance?

  Thanks in advance.

• Ry-SQL

  SSChasing Mays

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  April 17, 2008 at 2:39 pm

  #804009

  i typically would use a SAN unit and RAID 5 for the MDF