db servers separate hardware

[Russ Allbery]

Patty OReilly <oreilly@qualcomm.com> writes:

> Management wants to consolidate services where possible at our site. We
> have always adhered to the recommended practice of keeping our Database
> servers running vlserver, kaserver, ptserver and buserver on separate
> machines from our Fileservers. Now they want us to consolidate these
> services and run all AFS server processes on our Fileservers.

That really sounds like false efficiency....

> Does anyone have any information pro or con that could help us decide
> whether consolidation of Fileservers and DBservers would be successful?

We used to serve files from our VLDB servers, so I know it works fine.  It
probably won't be a problem, although I always much prefer to have
different services running on different machines.  Much cleaner and easier
to manage and maintain.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>