Our company is about to upgrade our server platform from Netware 3.12 to either Netware 5 or Nt Server 4. I have heard there are some performance issues with the NT server Arev Service. Does anyone have any iformation on exactly what the performace issue is, is it really noticeable with 50-100 users. It will be running on a 350 Pent.II with 128 meg ram. Any info would be helpful.
My client (16 users) upgraded from a 486-75 with Novell 3.11 and 16 mB RAM to a Pentium 266 with 128 mB RAM and Windows NT Server.
Owing to performance they insisted the application be put back on the Novell server.
This is without NLM and using AREV 2.12 in a manufacturing setting.
The Novell server is up for an average 200 days at a time. The NT server gets rebooted twice a week (owing to hang conditions).
We probably could have spent more time tuning the servers to get the NT server up to par, but this was a "straight out of the box" indication. I'm glad I didn't recommend the NT box or Microsoft NT.
Steve
stsm@ozemail.com.au
Ken,
If you are planning on moving to NT get, definately get the NT service, I would not move to NT without it.
NT is not configured for peak performance out of the box, so invest in someone tuning your NT server.
I have found that Novell will deliver better performance than NT on equivalent hardware platforms. We had our server tweaked and it helped, then we added the NT service and it really made a difference.
Subsequent improvements in the server,eg: Quality IO subsystems, etc, additional processors also improved our lot greatly.
We have clients running both network systems and Novell is still my preference, however we have plenty of sites running NT with adequate performance.
Cheers Sam
Tuning your NT server is worth the effort, if you can afford it go for multiple processors
Only rebooting twice a week? They should consider themselves lucky.