Strengths of Opteron and Xeon

Posted By: dotnetjunkie | Sep 5th, 2006 @ 4:20 PM
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#Sep 5th, 2006 @ 4:20 PM
dotnetjunkie
dotnetjunkie

My client has 2 machines: a single Xeon 3,6 Ghz, and a dual Opteron 248, both with 4GB of RAM, both x64 Windows 2003, and identical raid config.

I need to run the following services distributed over these machines:

* Web server (IIS6)
* Mail server (XMail, no exchange)
* Database server (SQL2005)
* Windows Sharepoint Services

What would you install on which machine, or put otherwise, what works best on Xeon and what on Opteron? (considering single vs. dual cpu, memory architecture, etc...)

#Sep 5th, 2006 @ 4:56 PM
dotnetjunkie
dotnetjunkie
For example:
1) Databases on Xeon, Websites on Opteron, mail on ?
2) Databases on Opteron, Websites on Xeon, mail on ?
3) Both databases and websites on Opteron, mail on Xeon
#Sep 5th, 2006 @ 5:11 PM
DoomBringer
DoomBringer
That is pretty tough.  I'm assuming that all the apps are native 64 bit... right?
#Sep 5th, 2006 @ 5:50 PM
dotnetjunkie
dotnetjunkie

Hm, good question, all the apps are native 64 bit indeed, BUT I think WSS would be a problem then? Am I right that WSS sites can only run in IIS 32-bit compatibility mode? Sad

#Sep 5th, 2006 @ 5:57 PM
ploe
ploe

i think it would depend on the load of your apps. does the SQL server get hammered? what about the web server? etc.

i would start with the SQL server on the dual Opteron machine. hard to make any other decisions without knowing how much each of these services gets used.

#Sep 5th, 2006 @ 8:44 PM
Ang3lFir3
Ang3lFir3
well WSS and IIS6 should be on the same box... makes life easier .... WSS runs off a MSDE backend IIRC(correct me if I'm wrong) so puting all those on the Dual Opteron along with SQL2005 would be easier to maintain...(especially if the DB gets hammered a lot giving you the flexability of per CPU licensing)

Putting the mail on the Xeon would be the only thing left to do......


If it were me and I could talk the client into SBS (if they qualify) that would be a better choice(exchange, ISA, etc etc etc)... then pull the ram from the Xeon and send it back ( Smiley sorry ima AMD fanboi) ........

just my input

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