SQL Server and Application Server on Same Box

  • Replace 2 boxes with 1 Bigger Box.

    Currently we have SQL Server 2000 SP4 on First box, Win 2003 SP2, 4 GB Mem

    and (Great Plains, Crystal, ETL, ASP) on second box, Win 2003 SP2, 4 GB Mem

    We clean our DB end of the year and make it a clean one for next year,

    It does not grow more than 10 GB in a year.

    On the App Server we have like 50 users for GP and 100 users on ASP.

    What are issues if we have one bigger box instead of 2 boxes, with Quad Core Intel Xeon 3.3 GHz 2x6 MB cache 16 GB memory and 1 TB Space.

    Please share your ideas.

    Thanks

    sieb

  • General practice is not to mix SQL Server with other applications because it can run into resource contention issues. However that said I have multiple installs where they are mixed (not of my choice mind you :().

    Also it is usually considered inappropriate to have SQL Server on a web server (i.e. IIS enabled applications) that server the general public.

    Thanks.

    Mohit.

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