[8730] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: db servers separate hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Wed Jun 13 14:33:41 2001
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In-Reply-To: Patty OReilly's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:41:57 -0700 (PDT)"
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 2001 11:17:27 -0700
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Patty OReilly <oreilly@qualcomm.com> writes:
> Management wants to consolidate services where possible at our site. We
> have always adhered to the recommended practice of keeping our Database
> servers running vlserver, kaserver, ptserver and buserver on separate
> machines from our Fileservers. Now they want us to consolidate these
> services and run all AFS server processes on our Fileservers.
That really sounds like false efficiency....
> Does anyone have any information pro or con that could help us decide
> whether consolidation of Fileservers and DBservers would be successful?
We used to serve files from our VLDB servers, so I know it works fine. It
probably won't be a problem, although I always much prefer to have
different services running on different machines. Much cleaner and easier
to manage and maintain.
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
