Vantage - Server Configuration for 6.1

system · September 28, 2006, 1:29pm

Jim,
Let me Third...Epicor/Progress does not support the use Raid 5! Go with
Raid 10. It's much faster and more fault tolerant.
Straight from the mouth of one who lost a Raid 5 with Vantage on it not a
month or so ago due to 2 drive failure.
It looks like you have the 4 drives needed anyway, though I might look at
the drives suggested by the others for additional speed also.
Good luck.
Aaron Hoyt
Vantage Plastics
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Jim Feetterer
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Subject: [Vantage] Vantage - Server Configuration for 6.1

Hello,

We are looking to upgrade our server to the following:

- Intel Dual-Core Xeon Processor 2.8 GHz

- 4 Gig Memory

- Raid-5 SCSI with 4 146GB Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 hot-swap drives

- Windows-2003

- CD/RW

Are there any glitches in this configuration?

Regards,

Jim Feetterer

Morgan Bronze Products

847-526-6000 X121

jfeetterer@...

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system · September 28, 2006, 11:58am

Hello,

We are looking to upgrade our server to the following:

- Intel Dual-Core Xeon Processor 2.8 GHz

- 4 Gig Memory

- Raid-5 SCSI with 4 146GB Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 hot-swap drives

- Windows-2003

- CD/RW

Are there any glitches in this configuration?

Regards,

Jim Feetterer

Morgan Bronze Products

847-526-6000 X121

jfeetterer@...

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system · September 28, 2006, 12:23pm

Yep, RAID 5 is not the preferred config. You may want to reconfigure for
RAID 10.

Regards,

Michael

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Hello,

We are looking to upgrade our server to the following:

- Intel Dual-Core Xeon Processor 2.8 GHz

- 4 Gig Memory

- Raid-5 SCSI with 4 146GB Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 hot-swap drives

- Windows-2003

- CD/RW

Are there any glitches in this configuration?

Regards,

Jim Feetterer

Morgan Bronze Products

847-526-6000 X121

jfeetterer@morganbr <mailto:jfeetterer%40morganbronze.com> onze.com

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system · September 28, 2006, 12:34pm

Jim,

I have basically the same config here, but with Raid - 10. Progress doesn't
like Raid - 5.....

I had always been a Raid 5 fan and loved it, but now I'm liking the Raid 10
It's much faster

Do yourself a favor and add two more hard drives and go with Raid
10......you can loose two drives and keep processing.

Paul L.

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
Jim Feetterer
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:05 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Vantage - Server Configuration for 6.1

Hello,

We are looking to upgrade our server to the following:

- Intel Dual-Core Xeon Processor 2.8 GHz

- 4 Gig Memory

- Raid-5 SCSI with 4 146GB Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 hot-swap drives

- Windows-2003

- CD/RW

Are there any glitches in this configuration?

Regards,

Jim Feetterer

Morgan Bronze Products

847-526-6000 X121

jfeetterer@morganbr <mailto:jfeetterer%40morganbronze.com> onze.com

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system · September 28, 2006, 12:58pm

Jim,

In my research I've discovered Intel has three series of Dual Core Xeon
processors (3000,5000,7000). There are different levels within each series.
As an example, a lower clock speed 5100 level processor will have better
performance than a higher clock speed 5000 level processor. Clock speed is a
not true indication of performance even within the same processor family.

I know there are various opinions of RAID Level, but Epicor discourages RAID
5. SAS drives (serial attached SCSI) will give better performance over
parallel SCSI when you have 2 or more drives. A single SAS drive has 300M
controller connection versus 320M for parallel SCSI. Adding a second SAS
drive expands the connection throughput to 600M. I think each connection get
its own channel versus the shared parallel SCSI bus. What I've read this
throughput continues to expand with each drive added up to a max. of 3G.

If running Windows 2003 Standard you are at the max usable memory at 4GB. If
you may need to add memory in the future I would use Windows 2003
Enterprise.

Best Regards,

Pat McGovern
McGovern & Associates
Ph. 563-588-3318
Fx. 563-588-3351
Email. pmcgovern@...

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Feetterer
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:05 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Vantage - Server Configuration for 6.1

Hello,

We are looking to upgrade our server to the following:

- Intel Dual-Core Xeon Processor 2.8 GHz

- 4 Gig Memory

- Raid-5 SCSI with 4 146GB Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 hot-swap drives

- Windows-2003

- CD/RW

Are there any glitches in this configuration?

Regards,

Jim Feetterer

Morgan Bronze Products

847-526-6000 X121

jfeetterer@morganbr <mailto:jfeetterer%40morganbronze.com> onze.com

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