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There is much to be said for that.
When upgrading our SAP HW last year, we made a case for a test system that mirrors our production system.
2 Quad CPU Dell 6450s with Veritas Cluster System and SAP mirror our production system.
This is where we try patches, upgrades to ancillary software, patch things, etc.
It's where I purposely crashed Oracle/SAP last week testing a newly published vulnerabilty.
You can't do those types of tests on your development or QA systems. So if you can get a real test system with your new HW, go for it.
Jared
Tim Gorman <tim_at_sagelogix.com>
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Valerie,
I'd say that your S/A is trying to save you money, and responsibly too. He/she can start you off on one server, and if it makes sense, procure a second server if it is needed.
But even if you were procuring (and licensing) two servers initially,
there
is a lot to be said for placing both tiers on one server anyway. One of
the
servers could be designated "production" and the other one "test". The
value of this is having at least one independent environment for testing,
that can be brought down, etc without affecting the production
environment.
I'm not talking about just application QA testing, I'm also talking about
hardware testing, OS upgrade/patch testing, Oracle upgrade/patch testing,
and the like. None of that is something to do for the first time in
production...
Hope this helps...
-Tim
on 3/5/04 6:15 AM, WEBBER, VALERIE at Vwebber_at_Valspar.com wrote:
> I am designing a new data warehouse and will be using Discoverer and
Portals
> on the Apps server/middle tier. My sys admin wants to purchase the new
HP
> RP7420 for production. He wants to purchase one server for both the apps
> server and the database server instead of separate servers for each app
> server and database.
>
> He says he can partition the server to make it look like 2 separate
servers.
> Can anyone offer me some advice if this is a good idea or not? My gut
> felling is to stick with separate servers but I know technology and
industry
> standard architecture changes.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Val
>
> Valerie H. Webber
> Valspar Corporation
> 7930 W. Kenton Circle
> Huntersville, NC 28078
> 800-241-4568 ext. 6313
>
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