My current setup is the following:
- Intel Xeon 5620 2.40Ghz
- 16GB RAM
- 1000GB disk
- Windows Server 2003 R2 x64
I'm having a really poor performance with this setup. I have some previous experiences running SharePoint on VM's with a lot less resouces than that, and equivalent performance.
I'm currently running a trial version of SharePoint 2007, but the whole machine is having a poor performance.
With that kind of hardware and software, I'd expect a really good machine running, but all I got is something worse than a 1gb VM.
I already bought the licences for SQL Sever 2008 and SharePoint 2007, so I can avoid the SQL Server Express limitations, but I'm really concerned that the problem is somewhere else.
Can anyone give me some tips regarding where to look for the bottlenecks and solutions?
All suggestions appreciated 🙂
Best Answer
Two things that stand out is that 56xx-series CPUs don't run their memory in a 'power of 2' way (i.e. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64GB etc.) but in a 'block of three' manner (i.e. 3, 6, 9, 12, 18GB etc.) - so having 16GB rather than say 12GB may actually be slowing your machine down - sounds odd I know but that's the way they work.
Secondly, and this has been mentioned already, but a single consumer-grade 1TB SATA disk will be quite poor in server-type situations. Those disks are really designed for near-line applications such as close-to-hand backups, not for multiple-random-IO operations such as SQL/Sharepoint activities. I know you'll lose capacity but look at the various 600GB 10krpm SAS enterprise disks sold by WD, Seagate etc. Also consider a mirrored pair for your own safety too ok.
Best of luck.