Perry,

I spoke to Russel, here's what he did to make you happy...

What would you recommend?

I agree. We have 2950s too but they're not as shiny as the new R series. :). We'll try our luck

It's a hit and miss with any hardware really. It's how much you pray to make it work :). What about the r710 or r715?

Good way of looking at it Jerry.

Perry Whittle (8/18/2010)

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Hello, me again.

God this guy Russel likes Dell doesn't he? Not on the payroll by any chance is he? 😀

Just one piece of advice, don't do it!!

If a...

Yes, 10K concurrent users. We're a little reluctant to call MS or and other third party at this point, it's just too involved.

456789psw (8/4/2010)

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Take out the guess work use the following link...http://www.wmarow.com/strcalc/

with raid 10, 4 disks, 8 pages and 64k extents, 10% read/90% writes,15 k RPM = 185 random iops...

Perry Whittle (8/4/2010)

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Robert

remember as you are implementing a cluster you will inherently have more than 2 machines on the network (a cluster is dependant upon DNS and AD).

You cluster...

Perry Whittle (8/4/2010)

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OK, taking RAID group2 from your diagram link above you have 1 RAID 10 group carved up to service

TEMPDB data

user DB data

Backup data

Sharing storage amongst 3 LUNs will...

Perry Whittle (8/4/2010)

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rdecker (8/4/2010)

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Hi Perry,

If we used a witness then it would be a 2 node cluster anymore. Unless I'm mistaken a majority node set with a witness would...

Why Perry? Could you please elaborate? What if I had separate physical disks dedicated to the OLTP...

Correct. Which is better for performance?

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Hi Perry,

If we used a witness then it would be a 2 node cluster anymore. Unless I'm mistaken a majority node set with a witness would require at least...