Thanks for the response. What bothers me about separating the Database onto a separate server is the speed of the channel used to communicate between the db server and the application server. Seems like this would slow overall throughput down.
Joan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 5:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Solaris-Users] Question about separating databases from theirapplicati... Separating the database server from the app server is a classical thing to do, and the decision to do so is usually based on the expected load on the servers. In my experience, the license fee for the database software (which, in the case of at least one well-known database software vendor, can be higher than the hardware cost) seems to be among the primary drivers of this decision. If the DB license is very expensive and is based on CPU count or some similar metric, you don't want to oversize that server (so it can also run the apps) and wind up spending more on the DB license than you need to. On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with keeping everything on one server, if it has enough total capacity; Solaris is very good at managing lots of dissimilar programs running simultaneously. Regards gear _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
