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Maximum storage one Windows server can deal with?
I know this is very much like "how long is a piece of string", however...
Is it reasonable to assume that one rack server with 4GB RAM, 2 x Quad core Xeon 3GHz processors, running Windows 2003 or 2008, would be able to cope with 20TB of iSCSI storage?
This is for a new offsite backup facility, so the bottleneck is going to be the internet connection. However, if the 100Mbps leased line was working at full capacity, would the one server be able to cope?
Seems to me that it could, although I realise that it would be prudent to have a failover server of similar spec.
Any thoughts?
Is it reasonable to assume that one rack server with 4GB RAM, 2 x Quad core Xeon 3GHz processors, running Windows 2003 or 2008, would be able to cope with 20TB of iSCSI storage?
This is for a new offsite backup facility, so the bottleneck is going to be the internet connection. However, if the 100Mbps leased line was working at full capacity, would the one server be able to cope?
Seems to me that it could, although I realise that it would be prudent to have a failover server of similar spec.
Any thoughts?
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Mixed MY terms up I mean
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Thanks for that.
One statement that needs clarifying from that link.
"You cannot use the GPT partitioning style on removable media, or on cluster disks that are connected to shared SCSI or Fibre Channel buses used by the Cluster service"
Would iSCSI be classed as a shared SCSI bus?
One statement that needs clarifying from that link.
"You cannot use the GPT partitioning style on removable media, or on cluster disks that are connected to shared SCSI or Fibre Channel buses used by the Cluster service"
Would iSCSI be classed as a shared SCSI bus?
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Oh wait a minute, it's talking about cluster disks - which I guess doesn't apply unless you specifically setup a disk cluster.
yeah that's for clusters. not what you are doing.
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).
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Although I'm fairly new to the mass storage arena, so maybe I've mixed by terms up.