Here's what I've got:
Dell PowerEdge SC1420 Xeon 3Ghz
1GB RAM (400MHz) 80GB C: drive (SATA, hardware mirroring) SBS 2003 Premium - not running MS Exchange - DHCP/DNS for 12 clients. - two print queues, both very lightly used - folder redirection of My Documents folders for 9 usersHere's what I'm asking it to do (outside of the O/S based stuff above): Host Store Ops database - 2 lanes, occassionally as many as 6 concurrent SO Manager sessions. Host HQ Database - HQ Server for 4 stores Connection Schedule: - Store A (on same machine), every 3 minutes - Store B, every 4 minutes - Store C, every 5 minutes - Store D, every 6 minutes HQ Client for local Store Ops DB Host private IM server - Wildfire (CPU usage rarely over 1%, memory usage 350MB (two processes, one as Administrator [300MB] and another as SYSTEM [50MB]).
Question: Should I budget for a dedicated HQ server next year?
Is >90% CPU usage normal for this scenario? I didn't think I was asking all that much of my hardware, but at times the response from the server is pretty slow.
CPU usage *really* spikes when the HQ Client connects to HQ server on the same machine.
I'd love to hear from anyone with similar usage and/or hardware.
Thanks, Tom