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!
KristinaAm 11 Jan 2007 06:32:20 -0800 schrieb KristinaDBA@.gmail.com:
> 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, the whitness Server don't need to be so big ;-)
You should install the right editon of SQL Server to be Witness.
The relevance of your sizing are the other roles/jobs this server will do
beside beeing witness.
thats my opinion. hope I could help a little
greetings
Rouven|||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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> Hey - thanks everyone for the help! I love this group!
> JoeyD wrote:
>
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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.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm
<KristinaDBA@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hey - thanks everyone for the help! I love this group!
> JoeyD wrote:
>
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.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm
<KristinaDBA@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hey - thanks everyone for the help! I love this group!
> JoeyD wrote:
>
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!
KristinaAm 11 Jan 2007 06:32:20 -0800 schrieb KristinaDBA@.gmail.com:
> 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, the whitness Server don't need to be so big ;-)
You should install the right editon of SQL Server to be Witness.
The relevance of your sizing are the other roles/jobs this server will do
beside beeing witness.
thats my opinion. hope I could help a little
greetings
Rouven|||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:
> 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|||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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<KristinaDBA@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1168528668.044990.221330@.i56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Hey - thanks everyone for the help! I love this group!
> JoeyD wrote:
>> 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
>
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!
KristinaAm 11 Jan 2007 06:32:20 -0800 schrieb KristinaDBA@.gmail.com:
> 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, the whitness Server don't need to be so big ;-)
You should install the right editon of SQL Server to be Witness.
The relevance of your sizing are the other roles/jobs this server will do
beside beeing witness.
thats my opinion. hope I could help a little
greetings
Rouven|||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:
> 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|||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.
--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm
<KristinaDBA@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1168528668.044990.221330@.i56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Hey - thanks everyone for the help! I love this group!
> JoeyD wrote:
>> 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
>
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