Seven disciplines for server configuration upgrade (1)

As an important part of the Internet, servers play many important roles, not only in the Internet industry, but also in banking, supermarkets, enterprises, schools, and other industries, its normal operation has brought us a lot of convenience in our daily life, such as banking business systems and enterprise management software. However, as information data increases and equipment keeps aging, server problems continue. When the server load reaches a certain limit, management and maintenance personnel should consider upgrading the server, to ensure the rapid development of servers is the support of information construction.

In consideration of the upgrade process, you should proceed according to your actual situation and not be blinded by the rhetoric of server sales personnel. First, you must have a detailed understanding of your server configurations, analyze the future requirements of enterprises, give careful consideration, and then develop the most suitable server upgrade solution, so as to avoid unnecessary waste during the upgrade process. Here we provide you with some notes for the upgrade, and hope to help you in the upgrade process.

I. Upgrade Method

1. hardware upgrade: the server upgrade focuses on four aspects: CPU, memory, storage system, and network card.

CPU: the CPU is the central processor, and the English is the central processing unit. CPU is the core component of a computer. It is only as big as a matchbox and as thick as dozens of sheets of paper, but it is the computing core and control core of a computer. The CPU is responsible for reading commands, decoding and executing commands in all operations on the computer. Many servers need to be upgraded. The CPU runs too slowly, resulting in limited application performance.

 
Intel® Xeon® 5600

During the upgrade, you should be clear about the server architecture, CPU interfaces, and the maximum number of CPUs that can be supported. Currently, the widely used PC servers include Intel and AMD architecture servers, as well as some low-end servers using desktop CPU. The CPU architecture used by these servers is different. Therefore, when upgrading the CPU, you must first know which server architecture the enterprise server uses, then, check whether there is space for upgrading the CPU on the server. However, before upgrading the CPU, you must specify the two concepts: Transaction processing speed and concurrent processing performance.

In addition, if the number of customers accessing the server is small, but each customer needs the server to provide a certain type of CPU-dependent Application Service, a high-speed single CPU may be the most useful. However, if many users make access requests to a large volume of data at the same time, when these access requests are opened in an independent process or thread mode, even a low-speed multi-CPU system may be more useful.

Memory: the memory stick is the channel connecting the CPU and other devices, and serves as a buffer and data exchange function.

 
Kingston memory

The maximum memory capacity supported by the server is generally limited. If you want to upgrade the server's memory, you need to first understand the related technical parameters of this server to avoid failure to meet the requirements during the upgrade.