Re: HW for SBS 2008 - advice?
- From: "Al Williams" <donotreplydirect@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:40:57 -0600
10G for Windows directory seems high (ours is only 5GB). You may want to
check in there to see what is taking the space. One thing it could be is
old "$xxxUninstallxxx$" directories. The old ones (say, more than a year)
can be deleted (or moved if you are unsure) as you are not likely to
uninstall the update after a year or more.
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Allan Williams
Mike wrote:
Al,
Thanks for the reply. I have been considering more memory, but I've
also wanted to avoid spending any more money on this machine, but
memory isn't that expensive, so I will price it out.
Yes, it is the same Mike - and I have freed up some space with
cleaning out old log files. Actually my C: drive partition is 23G,
of which 10G is the Windows directory, Program Files is about 6G and
other folders are about 2G, and I have 5G free at this time.
Yesterday I moved my Backup Exec install off the C drive partition,
which freed up about 2G itself. Also, my space isn't fluctuating
like it had been the last few days, so Backup Exec may have been a
culprit.
Mike
"Al Williams" wrote:
Don't forget if you want the "premium version" SQL server you will
need a second server (or go virtual) IIRC.
As for server speed, given enough RAM always put your money into the
disk array.
For your current server you could probably bring your performance up
a ton by upping your current server to 3 or 4G of RAM - 2G is not
enough for 35 users.
Also - if this is same Mike as the thread below with your C: drive
filling up, you indicated you had a 30GB paritition which is more
than enough, you just need to move some data and limit your logs
(SBS/Windows takes around 10GB, what is the rest?).
--
Allan Williams
Mike wrote:
Sorry guys, a bit more info. We are currently at 35 active users -
if I had to guess it might change by 1-2 additions per year. I
have quotas on users for Exchange,but am still running around 50Gb,
and our SQL databases are not huge either and the biggest one will
go away sometime next year.
I would say if I planned for 10% growth per year, that would be more
than adequate. We are going through right now and digitizing all of
our documents, but they are stored on a different server, so that is
not an issue for the SBS machine.
My current machine is noticbly slow now, but it is old - HP ML370
with a six disk array (36Gb 15K drives), split into two partitions
(one for OS and one for Exchange). It has only 2Gb RAM, and I'm
running out of disk space on the OS partition (deleting logs to keep
up and running).
Mike
"Mike" wrote:
Hi folks,
I am planning to upgrade our SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 early next year
(budget planning begins next week). I have used both Dell
PowerEdge products and HP Proliant servers, so I'm not married to
either one. Any advice on HW - Dell vs HP? How many drives and in
what config? Memory? We will be using both Exchange and SQL Server.
Mike
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