Hi,
We are running an application based on Progress 9.10E SP4
Its sitting on a Windows 2003 R2 64bit server. This Dell server has a mirrored pair of disks for the OS, and a RAID 10 array of 8 disks for the Progress installation and databases. There's 8GB RAM and a pair of Xeon E5410s running at 2.33 GHz. It performs adequately apart from when its doing an online backup, and then users complain.
We are planning an upgrade of database and application, and moving to new hardware at the same time. There will be no change in the number of users, or core functionality, it's just an upgrade. We're planning to go to Progress 10.2B, SP5, on a VMware virtual machine. We'll possibly go with an iSCSI SAN solution, using a Dell R720 host.
We've done a Dell DPACK analysis of the current system and got figures from a 7 day period for iops, processor use, etc. Based on these figures the idea is to specify the hardware to supply the requirements. Trouble is, we can't analyse the new system, because it's not in yet.
My question is, in general, will the hardware requirements of the new system be similar to the old? Is my analysis of the old system's requirements valid for the new system? Does Progress v10 hammer the hardware any more than v9?
Thanks in advance,
Steve
We are running an application based on Progress 9.10E SP4
Its sitting on a Windows 2003 R2 64bit server. This Dell server has a mirrored pair of disks for the OS, and a RAID 10 array of 8 disks for the Progress installation and databases. There's 8GB RAM and a pair of Xeon E5410s running at 2.33 GHz. It performs adequately apart from when its doing an online backup, and then users complain.
We are planning an upgrade of database and application, and moving to new hardware at the same time. There will be no change in the number of users, or core functionality, it's just an upgrade. We're planning to go to Progress 10.2B, SP5, on a VMware virtual machine. We'll possibly go with an iSCSI SAN solution, using a Dell R720 host.
We've done a Dell DPACK analysis of the current system and got figures from a 7 day period for iops, processor use, etc. Based on these figures the idea is to specify the hardware to supply the requirements. Trouble is, we can't analyse the new system, because it's not in yet.
My question is, in general, will the hardware requirements of the new system be similar to the old? Is my analysis of the old system's requirements valid for the new system? Does Progress v10 hammer the hardware any more than v9?
Thanks in advance,
Steve