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Adding Memory to DL385G1 Server

Jonathon Page — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:17:10 GMT

Hi
We have a DL385G1 (2P) server in production as a VMWare 3.0 server. Currently this machine has 8Gb of ram 2 (one per proc) x 2 (per bank) x 2Gb. The memory that HP shipped me is 2x4Gb. What is the best way to install this memory? should I just add it to one of the processors or does it make more sense to move all the existing 8 to one processor and add the new 8 on the other? I am leaning toward the latter but I don't know for sure if this will work.
Thanks
Jonathon Page

Re: Adding Memory to DL385G1 Server

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:04:26 GMT

Shalom Jonathan,

The answer to this question is always "It depends"

Spreading it across processors can help with a machine that has lots of processes that run a short time.

Putting it on one CPU can improve the performance of big ugly applications like Oracle Server and Oracle Application Server (Noting personal Larry).

SEP

Re: Adding Memory to DL385G1 Server

sandeep_raman — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:08:19 GMT

Hello Jonathon,

Does this help?

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00367925&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

SRH

Re: Adding Memory to DL385G1 Server

Jonathon Page — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:19 GMT

Thanks for the input.

The server in question is a VMWare ESX 3.0 server so the load is going to be balanced pretty evenly between processors (hopefully).

I am leaning ever more toward the 8 and 8 configuration.

Jonathon Page