Re: Which hardware to buy for Informix-Online? (AIX,HP,SUN...)

On 2 Feb 1995, Kristjan Gaukur Kristjansson wrote: > My company is running I-Online on an AIX-RS6000-320 machine which is getting > to be to small. So if we are going to buy a bigger machine, what is the > best buy when considering Informix management (admin., backups, raw partition > management, hardware maintenance a.s.f.). > > We are talking about less than 100 users and probably less than 40 heavy duty > users, and data that fits wery well on a 1gb disc. ^^^ One (platform independent) comment: If you really have your database on a single 1gb disk, the first thing I would do is split it up across several drives (even If I had to buy disks to do it). Lots of DBMS systems tend to be IO bound. One of the largest improvements I made when I first started my current job was to split our database across four disks rather than one. It made a *huge* difference > And while on the subject, what do you folks think about having a seperate > test machine for testing, and how like the running env. does it have to be? Its a nice thing to have, particularly when youre making major changes. I dont know that Id call it critical. Joe Matuscak Rohrer Corporation 717 Seville Road Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 (216)335-1541 Matuscak@Rohrer.com