What is the best way to setup and configure a clusterd
environment of SQL Server in terms of RAID, data file
location, log file location, backup etc. I guess in
separate drives for data and logfile.Great question. The bad answer is always "it depends."
You must be doing something like a SAN or DAS right? In very general terms,
split the data, logs, and temp db all out on different raid configs, i.e.,
LUNs. I like RAID 1+0 (or said RAID 10) because of the speed and high
tolerance of multiple disk failures at once, not to mention when you need
more disk space, adding new spindles is easy. If performance is more
important than money, then spread out over as many spindles as feasable.
You achieve more I/Os this way. This means, go for more disks of lower size
than few disks of higher size.
I believe on the SQL disk there is a VB6 application called database hammer
which you can use to test your config.
hth, Eric
"Aboki" <waco361@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What is the best way to setup and configure a clusterd
> environment of SQL Server in terms of RAID, data file
> location, log file location, backup etc. I guess in
> separate drives for data and logfile.sqlsql
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