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Looking for some help on guidelines for sizing database server to handle load. We have just configured a completely new server environment and have ran into issues with our database server. I figured this may be our bottleneck, but we have multiple different server sites and have never seen the performance hit that we are seeing on this machine.
All of our servers are running on VMWare
Server Setup
2 GIS ArcGIS servers
64GB Ram on both
8 Core Processors
Windows Server 2012 R2
1 Web Server with Web adaptor for Load balancing
4 Core Machine
Windows Server 2012 R2
1 Database Server
SQL Server 2014
64GB Ram
4 Core Processors
Windows Server 2012 R2
1 Geoevent Server
64 GB Ram
4 Core Processor
Windows Server 2012 R2
We were running into resource problems on the old machine, so we built this system to be very robust. The database server is completely dedicated to GIS data and GIS Applications. We are streaming vehicles through the GeoEvent server with 50 vehicles that update a feature service on the Database Server every 2 minutes. Not all vehicles come in at the same time usually it is 6 to 10 vehicles at the same time. We have all the Electric, Water and Communications datasets on the same database server. We had them as dynamic, but changing them to cached did not eliminate much load on the server. We are also updating a table with outage information on the Database Server every 2 minutes. This table is used in a Join only returning matching features in our applications.
The server load seems to be from the Real Time data layers:
Vehicle Updates
Outage Information
We have multiple Operations Dashboards setup for our system control center to view real time outage and vehicle locations. We also have some web app builder web applications setup that are viewing this same information. It really seems as though our dedicated database server is inundated easily.
We had 10 to 12 users open the Operations dashboards and the server cores were maxed out within seconds of everyone trying to access the information.
My question is do we simply need more cores to operate a system like this or does anyone feel that VMWare is not optimized for SQL server. It seems as though the database server is inundated rather quickly. The old Server on one machine sql server 2008 with ArcGIS server and Sql Server on the same machine. We knew that the bottleneck on that server was the RAM as we were limited to 32GB because of windows 2008, but it would start failing after more ArcGIS instances could not spin up and Javew.exe process started storing all the log errors and growing exponentially. This server only had 4 cores and multiple different business system databases on it. At least we were able to view the applications for a while. The only new load is the vehicle locations.
Any advise or suggestions would be great.
