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RE: PDS Setup general question

Emmanuel Huna — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:15:47 GMT

As BetaFisch mentioned, even with 300 employees you should be able to use the free SQL Server Express 2005 without problems.

The hardware, CPU and RAM you mentioned will more than enough handle the load.

RE: PDS Setup general question

fahmi1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:12:18 GMT

ok change in plans. My client has just informed me that though they may only have 40 employees on-site, they will be having several other sites connect which can lead up to about 300 employees. So with this in mind i may have to go with setup 1. BTW 300 will never be connecting all at onc and that is a number that they "hope" to be at within the next 2-3 years. By end of year they are hoping for 100. doubt they will go above 150 employees though but i am doing a setup based on 300 like they are asking.

sever 1- Domain

server 2- PDS

server 3- File

I want to run by the server setup i have priced out to see if this is an over kill or if it will be sufficent enough to be able to last several years with little upgrade.

Dell Power Edge sc1430

2x Dual Core Xenon Processors 1.6GHz

4GB Ram

Server 2003

Raid 5 configuration with 3 500GB Hard Drives

SQL Server 2005 Standard (Can i use workgroup?)

Opinions? on both server specs and the 3 setup i plan on running for them

RE: PDS Setup general question

BetaFisch — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:59:15 GMT

With 40 user you can probably stick with SQL Express as well.

RE: PDS Setup general question

Emmanuel Huna — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:05:37 GMT

Check out this article I wrote, which can give you an architectural overview of PDS and some performance numbers:

Architectural Overview
http://pdskb.calyxsoftware.com/article.aspx?id=11703

Browse around the PDS Knowledge Base, you may find other articles of interest.

You don't want to install PDS on the domain controller, but with 40 users and a modern server (good CPU and 2-4GB of RAM), you should have no problems with your "Server 2 File/PDS" setup.

PDS Setup general question

fahmi1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:46:43 GMT

Hello all,

I am pretty new to point and have just brought in a new client who is using point. Their company would like to get the PDS software and i was wondering what some of your setup configurations are. Currently they have no servers. My intentions are to get them on Active Directory, and get them a file server. On top of that my question is they have less than 40 employees and from my understanding PDS uses SQL. Would it be wise to have a seperate SQL server from the PDS.

The setup i am thinking of is

Server 1- Domain Controller

Server 2- File server

Server 3- PDS

Server 1 Domain Controller

Server 2 File/PDS

Since i have no clue how much of a load SQL qill put on the server, i dont know if this is the best setup to use. Also what are some of the general specs you are running for your PDS. I am trying to keep some of the costs low but give them the best setup for their situtation

Any help would be greatly apprecieated

Fahmi