SQL Server Bloatware? Who Knew?
This is George, at work. Eight (count-em) 2.8GHz CPUs (not counting the three machines at the top), Forty Gigabytes of RAM, an 8 Gigabyte Solid State Disk (for the logs) and an insanely huge RAID-10 disk array at the bottom, attached via a dedicated fibre channel switch.
All to run a database. On Windows. It’s an absolute bloody crime.
One of SQL Server’s selling points is that it’s considerably cheaper than Oracle. Not by the time you’ve factored in the bloody hardware it isn’t. Still, it’ll make a nice Quake 3 server when it’s finally decommissioned š
16 March 2007 at 12:03 PM |
or a paperweight š
16 March 2007 at 12:17 PM |
Shiny!
16 March 2007 at 2:36 PM |
Or you could put your coffee on it š
16 March 2007 at 7:58 PM |
Roflolol – glad ma server room is windoze free š
One question though – why the dedicated FC switch – why not connect directly?
16 March 2007 at 8:15 PM |
A very good question – there is NO REASON WHATSOEVER for the very expensive FC switch – there’s nothing else connected to it. Such is the woe of the private sector – money to burn :-/
The good news is that this is an end of line system – the new architecture is purely Debian (and a smattering of Ubuntu) with not a sniff of windows in sight š