ECC 6.0, BI & EP on single server

[Former Member]

Dear all,

Y'day I recommended my management to take EP, ECC & BI on different servers.... but they are asking me the reason other than performance for different server....

Please suggest me the points that you think I should use in my brief....

Please help me!!!

Thanks & Regards,

Vishal Ranadive

[JPReyes]

Logical partition or Virtual Servers will solve some of the issues... but remember you're still sharing a limited ammount of resources risking performance and the issue of availability due to hardware/software failure still is a tread.

This is a kind of scenario i'll use for my DEV,QA systems but certainly not for my production environment.

Regards

Juan

[Former Member]

OK, apart from resources or single point of failure, will there be any kind of security issues... ????

Guys really thanks for you replies which is making me strong in my brief .............

[JPReyes]

I can't see any additional security issues in a box with 3 systems than in a box with 1.

Regards

Juan

[Former Member]

Thanks Juan,

also how much it is possible with VM viewer ?????

[JPReyes]

VM Viewer???

[Former Member]

OK, By the way Thanks a ton Juan...

[JPReyes]

As mentioned by Ruchit... performance is one reason, also you have to consider that if hardware fails you loose the three systems instead of one, also any problem afecting a particular system that require the OS to be restarted will affect the whole environment...

Regards

Juan

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies , what if I use LPAR and install all applications on single BOX?

[Former Member]

From the management/budget saving point of view LPAR is the best way to go. Nowadays the HW is much better than 3 years ago and you can get a well equipped IBM pSeries server with LPAR within budgets. Furthermore LPAR is logically isolated with different HW/SW resource(CPU/Memory /Disk resource, IP/hostname/mount point)...Also the communication between LPARs are faster for sure because they're happening within memory other than physical NIC/cables.

I have seen companies running their DEV/QA/PRD in the same p5 570 box with good performance. By the way, 570 is not the high-end machine...

[Former Member]

Hello Vishal,

Perforkmance alone should be a strong point in your proposal. Frankly this is most common reason.You wither have to ramp up resources of your existing server or go for split up.However wait for others with their comments as well.

With Regards.

Ruchit.