XP or 2003 server

George Mills · Post by **George Mills** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:26 pm

Is there much advantage of running Windows 2003 vs XP for Vault server?

Post by **jclausius** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:04 pm

There are too many variables to give you a straight answer, so I can only answer, "it depends".

Is the OS going to be installed on the same hardware?
What is the database ( MSDE2000 or SQL Server2000 )?
How many concurrent Vault users will be using the system?

Win 2003 server is can handle more active users and allocate more resources due to the internal programming of the OS

In general, for a small installation consisting of ~10 users, Win XP should be just fine.

dan · Post by **dan** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:06 am

One other factor is that Win2k3 is very finicky about IIS timeouts and recycling IIS processes, which causes Vault sessions to terminate if you don't have your settings just right.

George Mills · Post by **George Mills** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:26 am

SQL Server 2000
Initially 10 developers (total) but if all goes well up to 50 users (total).
Conncurrently I can see higher than 5.
But I'm not sure if that counts as connections or active transations.
I can easily see 30 active connections (i.e. open Vault IDE).

Post by **jclausius** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:12 am

I'd then take a look at using Win 2003 Server. And please keep Dan's posting in mind. IIS 6's default values is to recycle the ASP.Net process quite a bit.

We've gone to extra-ordinary efforts to ensure Vault requires no reboot of IIS' .Net process, and have taken advantage of the server to cache parts of the system to improve performance.