I'm debating moving my Orion servers from 32 bit Win2k3r2 standard to 64 bit Win2k8r2 enterprise. Does anyone have any experiences that they can share with Orion on Win2k8? Have you seen any performance improvements? Any problems?
I run Orion on Windows 2008 R2 Standard on VM's in a virtualized environment running VMWare and it all runs perfectly. The only system that is still physical is my SQL database. My NPM Primary, Additional Poller, Additional Web, and NCM are all Windows 2008 R2 Standard VM's.
How would you say it compares performance wise to before 2008? Same, better, worse? My original reason for upgrading was my desire to run my primary server with 6 cpu's, so I would have had to go from standard to enterprise. So I basically thought that if I'm going upgrade anyways I might as well go to 2008.
I think it performs better.
When I upgraded to Windows 2008 that is also the time when I moved the systems from physical servers to VM's. When they were on physical servers they had 2 CPU's with 4 cores each. When I moved them to VM's I only gave my pollers 2vCPU's and my Additional Web and NCM only 1vCPU each. After all of that the systems functioned significantly better.
Hope this helps!
I run my single poller in server 2008r2 also, but I don't remember if i got any speed boost or not. my environment is small compared to byrona's (single poller and seperate DB), but it runs great (although it ran great on Server 2003 for me too). I have heard that SW is writing the new code to take advantage of 64 bit as they are upgrading. It might be nice to stay ahead of them and not need to upgrade again in the future.
