One powerful single server or distributed setup for EPM 11 (Planning)?

Hi,
If you have an option of choosing a single (but powerful) server vs distributed server, what would you recommend? This is for appx 100 concurrent users.
Single Server setup
Web & App Server
- 8 core CPU
- 16 GB RAM
Distributed Server setup
Server 1 (Web)
- 4 core CPU
- 8 GB RAM
Server 2 (App)
- 4 core CPU
- 8 GB RAM
Both setup will have a separate dedicated Essbase & RDBMS.
Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Lou
Edited by: user8640150 on 27/01/2010 15:53

Personally I would go for a distributed architecture to split out the load instead of putting it all on one server.
I have seen many times an architecture of essbase on one server and planning, foundation and reporting & analysis split between two or more servers.
Though I would recommened getting a consultant in to discuss what products are going to be installed and how they are going to be used before making any decisions.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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SMB doesn't work.
Sure I can create a connection, but transferring files is a completely different story. I'm trying to backup application and system data, but companies such as Adobe and Apple have named some of their files with special characters that can't be transferred over SMB. I know NTFS doesn't support these characters, but I though a Linux box using SMB would work fine. It doesn't. It's the protocol which keeps me from transferring the data. I end up with the lovely error message of "You cannot copy some of these items to the destination because their names are too long or contain invalid characters for the destination..." (what's sad is, if you google for " because their names are too long or contain invalid characters for the destination" you only get 6 results.)
So I thought I would give NFS a try. Apple says "Viewed from Mac OS X, [connecting via NFS] is just like connecting to an Apple or Windows server." No. It's not. NFS shares don't even show up in the Finder's Network listing. There are also a pile of other hurdles which are only tackled by savvy, command-line using users.
So that leaves me with AFP. Win2k3 doesn't support filenames longer than 31 characters, and Win2k8 is dropping SFM altogether. Off to choose a *nix flavor, but that requires Netatalk. It hasn't been updated in years, it has many bad performance reviews... and most distros have removed it. I can download and install it. Oh, but that requires I get the kernel source files. Then I have to create an RPM an that's not working... now I'm several levels deep in trying to figure out how to get Netatalk working and I'm not even sure it will work.
*What's the best setup for a non-Mac file server?*
FreeNAS seems promising, but it's in alpha/beta and they have all sorts of warnings regarding potential data loss. Sure there's ExtremeZ-IP, but I really don't want to spend $675 do something Apple claims OS X can already do. I can put just about any non-Mac OS on this thing... what's the best way to set it up so it works?
Thanks much.

Rick may be right because although i didnt think of it before i tend to have notoriuosly long classnames for my php classes and i have used samba on occasion (when rsync is out of the question for one reason or another) and never had a problem. I use kubuntu (feisty at the moment )with an ext3 filesystem. if i have a chance this evening ill give it a try and see what happens.
You could also possibly use FUSE to use an ssh filesystem for the shares... i don tknow how that would figure in your back up though.
Also if worse comes to worse you could tar or dmg the the necessary files... just some thoughts.
Ill be interested to know what you end up implementing....
OH one last thought... Compile Darwin from source and use that as your server

One powerful single server or distributed setup for EPM 11 (Planning)?

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