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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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 Posted - 2003-04-14 : 17:32:49
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| I have been tasked with finding out people's opinions about Windows 2000 Data Center. From what I understand, there are only about 25 companies that are certified to use Data Center (my company being one of them), but there are many companies who use Data Center but aren't certified. We are using it along with SQL Server Enterprise Edition and clustering for a high availability solution.We are currently only running one application's database on it which is in Beta right now, but we will be moving several of our application databases over to it once testing completes and any new databases will be installed there as well. The application servers run Windows 2000 App Center.Do any of you use Data Center? If yes, then are you certified to use it and what is your opinion of it so far?Tara |
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byrmol
Shed Building SQL Farmer
1591 Posts |
Posted - 2003-04-14 : 19:00:49
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| I don't understand the "certified to use" context..There a certain companies that are certified to build a Data Center but AFAIK not to run it. My previous and current job both use it but I thought the only requirement to use it was money! It works well, has hardly broken a sweat, but is overkill for current needs.. DavidM"SQL-3 is an abomination.." |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
38200 Posts |
Posted - 2003-04-14 : 19:04:26
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| Well the certified to use part was what was explained to me. It might be an HP/Compaq certification thing. But I'm not sure.Tara |
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gwhiz
Yak Posting Veteran
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Posted - 2003-04-14 : 19:15:40
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| My company uses it. We use an ES 7000. It works good. Anything in particular you'd like to know. |
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jasper_smith
SQL Server MVP & SQLTeam MVY
846 Posts |
Posted - 2003-04-15 : 13:26:21
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I think the point is that you can't buy DataCenter Edition from a shop, it only comes with hardware from certified microsoft partners like unisys,dell,hp etc - I don't think you need to be "certified" to buy the hardware - just need the cash. We run it on a couple of ES7000's and it seems stable (stable enough to handle 14 instances of SQL Server  across 2 server partions). Install is straightforward although it's unlikely you will need to do this - that's what vendors are for.HTHJasper Smith0x73656c6563742027546f6f206d7563682074696d65206f6e20796f75722068616e6473203f27 |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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Posted - 2003-04-15 : 13:29:08
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| 14 instances of SQL Server! Thanks for that info. We (DBAs) actually are the ones that do the installs of SQL Server on Data Center.I am probably wrong about the certified to use part. It was probably explained wrong and probably should have said that only 25 vendors certified to build Data Center.Tara |
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