report saying that the machine's hardware is obsolete or heavy to run the base

  • I need a script that generates a report saying that the machine's hardware is obsolete or heavy to run the database.

    Do you have any script ready to do this?

  • Do you have monitoring history to support such a report?

    There is no simple correlation between hardware required and number of rows, gigabytes of data, or number of users, for example.

    You need information on waits, disk queues, CPU usage, transactions per second, etc.

    And it's not just the SQL Server hardware that matters. It's also the network. And the SAN if storage is not local. And the VM host hardware & VM configuration if virtualized.

  • Piling on a little. It's truly dependent on the load of the system, data size, number of transactions, transaction size, database design, statistics, indexes, code, code, code, system settings, version, patch, query statistics, wait statistics... THEN, we can say, CPU is too slow or too few, Memory is too little or too slow, disks, are too small, too few, too slow, etc.

    There isn't a single metric that will tell you all of that.

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