Hope I am on the correct forum for this:
I am working for a small IT company and we have two virtual servers (Windows Server 2008) with SQL databases on them. I am a bit of a novice when it comes to server capacity so I would like to know how many databases each can take before it gets overloaded.The first server has:
- 4 GB RAM
- AMD OPTERON 2.10 GHZ processor
- SQL Server 2008
- 100 databases (some are not used). The DB's in total size are 9 GB. They have been in existence for about a year.
- 70 sites on IIS.
- 10 GB free of 100 GB hard drive (this is rather worrying but I think this is because there is no recycle bin present; I will have to resolve this).
The second server has:
- 8 GB RAM
- AMD OPTERON 2.20 GHZ processor.
- SQL SERVER 2008 R2
- 70 databases (some are not used).The DB's in total size are 7 GB); one is one GB, 4 others are 0.5 GB each.
- 40 sites on IIS
- 25 GB free of 100 GB
I'm probably giving a bit too much information there but just a rough idea from someone who knows about these issues would be appreciated. Thanks.