Mirrored databases and Witness server

We are upgrading to 2005 and have decided to go to a mirrored 2005
environment. We have picked out the production server (principal) 16
gigs memory, dual proc quad core, Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. I am
having difficulty finding out how "beefy" a box we need for the Witness
server. Does anyone have any experience with this and can you assist me
in specs. I am working with our Network Administrator.
Thanks for all the help!
Kristina
Hi,
Kristina - your witness server can be a single processor box with
1/2 GB memory. You can even use SQL Server express. The resources
needed for the witness server is minimum.
This from our Microsoft pre-sales rep.
hth
KristinaDBA@.gmail.com wrote:
> We are upgrading to 2005 and have decided to go to a mirrored 2005
> environment. We have picked out the production server (principal) 16
> gigs memory, dual proc quad core, Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. I am
> having difficulty finding out how "beefy" a box we need for the Witness
> server. Does anyone have any experience with this and can you assist me
> in specs. I am working with our Network Administrator.
> Thanks for all the help!
> Kristina
|||Hey - thanks everyone for the help! I love this group!
JoeyD wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Hi,
> Kristina - your witness server can be a single processor box with
> 1/2 GB memory. You can even use SQL Server express. The resources
> needed for the witness server is minimum.
> This from our Microsoft pre-sales rep.
> hth
>
> KristinaDBA@.gmail.com wrote:
|||While being a witness is not a very hard job, it is important because when
the witness is down, automatic failover won't happen so while you can get by
without a lot of processor or memory resources, you don't want to use your
kid's old game machine for this. Get a good quality machine with a good NIC
card and maybe even a UPS.
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> JoeyD wrote:
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