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Busy, Busy, Busy. As a dedicated member of the technical staff at Repton, I have noticed a great increase in interest in the Integrity product portfolio in the last few months in both sales opportunities and of technical interest in the products. Personally I put this down to the greatly improved performance of Intel’s Montecito chip and subsequently Montvale (Tukwila out this year), but of course it might have something to do with attractive pricing and bundles too!
In particular we have seen great uptake of large Microsoft servers running SQL2005 on Integrity cell based systems.
Now I’m no DBA, in fact my knowledge of SQL is quite limited, so when I decided to load and evaluate SQL2005 on the Windows datacenter partition on the Superdome, I was a little concerned of the complexity and issues that might arise.
Now I am pretty familiar with configuration of the hard partition Npar (and so I should be by now) so setting up a 16 core 2 cell hard partition was a relatively quick process. Remembering to turn on Threading I could essentially run 32 threads with this.
Installation of Windows2003 and SQL were very straightforward and I was quickly able to setup a dummy database.
So what’s all the fuss about?
Customers needing to scale up and consolidate SQL instances can achieve massive, record breaking price performance on a business critical system platform. This is not an option on traditional 32 bit.
I never thought I would say this about Microsoft products on Integrity but they have found a bit of a niche here.
Happy 30th birthday OpenVMS. I really can't believe its been around for so long. Then again I remember this being the O/S of choice when I was at University. Whether it will be here for another 30 years is extremely doubtful. Still, I got a nice pen to commemorate this. As for all the 32bit users out there, memory extension technology and Virtualisation started here!
Dave Drewett
To contact Dave Drewett, please call 020 8890 9000 or email dave.drewett@repton.co.uk
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