Scaling Project Server 2003

[Marcus Pierce]

All,

Kind of a complicated question:

If we build project server with the web stuff and analysis services on the
front end (but not the DBs), can we ever add another 2003 Server and put
Project Server on it and configure it identical to the first one (connecting
to the existing DB’s) OR….if the load on the first machine got too large,
could we (without interruption to the users) build another machine and use
that for the WSS and Analysis services (or just the Analysis Services).

Basically, if all the SQL roles are on one box and all the other roles are
on another (WSS, Analysis, PWA). How hard would it be to move those roles to
another machine….and for the PWA piece, how hard would it be to add another
IIS server via a Load Balancer (which we have here on the networking side so
the load balancing would not have to be done via Windows).

We are in the early planning stages of migrating from Project Server 2002 to
2003.

Any help would be appreciated.

--Marcus Pierce

 

[Dominic Moss]

Marcus,

The Project Server Installation Guide, a downloadable book in pdf format
available from the Microsoft site, has a chapter covering various scales of
installation/deployment - hopefully they touch on some of the points you
raise. I enclose a copy of the Chapter contents to give you some indication
of the content. I think that as part of the EIF process Microsoft try to
guide you as to the most appropriate deployment - there is mention of an
Excel spreasheet to help in calculating Server Scaling but I have never been
able to find it.

Chapter 2 12

Installation Roadmaps
.............................................................. 12

Single Computer Deployment Roadmap
................................................................. 12

Small-Scale Deployment Roadmap
......................................................................... 15

Medium-Scale Deployment Roadmap
..................................................................... 19

Large Scale Deployment Roadmap
......................................................................... 23


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Dominic Moss

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