HW & SW configuration

[paprita]

I'm buying 2 new servers, one for db (SQL 2000) and one for service ... both servers will be equiped with Windows 2003 server (2008 in the future).

I'd like to ask:
- I understand that the more HW equiped are them, the more performances is lansweeper, but what do you think should be a good compromise between costs and HW equiped for each server? One or two processors? Dual or quad core? How much RAM? I was direct my choice on 2 servers equiped with one single quad core processors with 4GB RAM ... you know I have much more than 10.000 PC on my network ...

- I'm using SQL 2000: do you think could be better to upgrade to SQL 2008? Do you know a rapid/secure mode to "pass" all data from 2000 to 2008? ... I think itsn't easy ...

[Hemoco]

I would recommend SQL 2005 over SQL 2000 because it's faster.

Best for your scanning server:

Multiple processors/cores/multithreading. (the more the better)
1/2 GB memory should be enough, it's not that important

Best for SQL server:
Memory (4GB)
Fast disks
Multiple processors/cores/multithreading

To upgrade your database from 2000 to 2005 you can just take a backup on 2000 and restore it on 2005