[8738] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: db servers separate hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harald Barth)
Thu Jun 14 06:40:16 2001
To: oreilly@qualcomm.com
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
From: Harald Barth <haba@pdc.kth.se>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:41:57 -0700 (PDT)"
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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:32:56 +0200
> 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.
Seperate machines are reasonable because when things break (and things
do break from time to time) hopefully only one thing breaks at a time.
As you can run your dbservers on almost any handed down hardware (like
last years fileserver minus disk), I don't see any consolidation
benefits to gain. Of course you have three less servers to tend to,
you have to decide if that is a considerable benefit for your
organization. Part of the idea with with AFS is that it is designed
for distribution. No, I would not do it for any production cell
with more than 3 servers. Try to hold out until the consolidation
trend is over.
Harald.
