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Re: Does someone has any experience with SAP R/3 running on NT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (trn18@uic.com (trn18) (by way of S)
Tue Nov 4 08:38:06 1997
To: sapr3-soft@MIT.EDU
Date: 4 Nov 1997 07:27:55 -0600
From: trn18@uic.com (trn18) (by way of SAP Moderator <trn18@uic.com>)
>We are evaluating the purchase of SAP R/3, that they can run on a Compaq
>Proliant 7000 with two 200 Mhz intels. The system has to support 60
>concurrent users. The DBMS server will be Microsoft SQL.
>Does anybody has any experience with this?
Don't let the tail wag the dog. The hardware answer will vary
depending on your use of the system. I think there are many
Windows NT solutions of more size than you are talking about
but in many cases they will involve multiple machines, a server for
the database and one or more for applications.
Additionally, you will need a separate machine for test/development.
We have three: one for develoment, one for integrated testing, and
one for production. The production "machine" is actually several
application servers and a single database server. The development
and test machines can be a single computer, with app and DB combined,
but this may pose performance problems in production. The integrated
test machine actually has enough disk space for a full copy of the
production database. This helps make testing more accurate and useful.
I think you need to decide:
1) SAP R/3
2) database type and operating system
3) brand of hardware, and how much hardware.
SAP has sizing models that will help determine the required size of
the production machine. Carefully compute the required size and
then multiply by two or three. With hardware being one of the least
costly parts of the SAP project it doesn't make sense to skimp.
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