I have two instances of 2008R2 running.
One has the core databases the other has SSIS for loading.
However if I could somehow merge these two systems into one database it may be faster to load.
I am trying to separate the processing for ETL and other database jobs. If I could have one database over two nodes then one could do the processing for ETL while the other is the core DB. I am trying to avoid moving data over the LAN the way I am now. When I process the data on the ETL side I still have to load it into the core DB on the other server which means I am sending the data over the LAN to get there. If both servers shared a LUN then there would be NO movement at all over the LAN to load the data into the core db. This is assuming Fiber Channel or some for of direct attached storage, not iSCSI etc..
Does this make sense? I assume this is an active/active config? I am running physical machines and I assume I would need a clustered file system to do what I am suggesting? I do not see the ability inside Windows to do that? Would I use Failover Clustering?
There MUST be a best practice for offloading SSIS work while minimizing LAN traffic to move data between hosts.
-Ken
