October 6, 2009 at 11:37 pm
I have a 32 bit Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition Server with one quad core processor 2.83ghz and the box has 3.25 GB of RAM.
Is this adequate to run one default and two Named Instances of SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition (patched to SP3) ??
If so, are there any tuning parameters I should be aware of?
October 6, 2009 at 11:43 pm
No, your memory is WOEFULLY inadequate. double your memory and cou count and we can talk.. I can see you having problems with processor, memory, and probably disk contention. You might get one ok server out of that, but absolutely not three.
CEWII
October 7, 2009 at 5:40 am
With the additional Memory, what kind of parameters would have to be changed or what kind of tuning would ahve to take place in order to take advantage of the additional memory?
October 7, 2009 at 5:50 am
Jpotucek (10/7/2009)
With the additional Memory, what kind of parameters would have to be changed or what kind of tuning would ahve to take place in order to take advantage of the additional memory?
Such an open ended question, you have to take into account the workload that each individual instance will be responsible for, for a start.
it would be better if you could describe what each instance would be used for, the specification you have now, is suitable for a single instance. you can change memory settings once you have bought more. Do you know how much extra ram you will be adding ot this box.
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October 7, 2009 at 7:27 am
You'll be able to run three instances of SQL Server on this system, certainly. The question is, what will they be doing? How much data are you storing, how many users making how many connections, how many queries moving what kind of data? It really depends on all this to say that a given configuration is adequate. Without a baseline measure of the databases running on each given instance, it's impossible to say that this server will support three different instances.
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