db servers separate hardware

[Patty OReilly]

I probably should have mentioned, we only have two fileservers in
this cell. I think if we had 3 or 4 it would not be an issue.


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Jeff Blaine wrote:

> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:54:42 -0400
> From: Jeff Blaine <jblaine@mitre.org>
> To: Patty OReilly <oreilly@qualcomm.com>
> Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
> Subject: Re: db servers separate hardware
> 
> We've run our DB servers as fileservers for well over 5 years with no
> problems.  We're just recently migrating volumes off of the DB servers
> to create a "proper" cell due to the size of our cell, the geographical
> expansion of our cell (and DB servers...), etc.
> 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > Does anyone have any information pro or con that could help us decide
> > whether consolidation of Fileservers and DBservers would be successful?
>