Theserverstore.com $10k will get you a pair of NAS boxes (redundancy!), And 2-4 "compute" boxes for clustering, live migration, etc. Don't buy some drives for the actual VM hosts - throw in a pair of SSDs in raid1 and load them up with a crap ton of ram and maybe some Chelsio or mellanox 10G cards. Once the VMs are loaded from the NAS boxes they can run completely in ecc-ram-land and be ridiculously fast without having to worry about disk i/o and latency from running on a local array (assuming the NASs are configured right). The 10G cards will have reduced latency as well compared to your standard 4x1Gbps setup.
Of course, this is all fine assuming you can live with noise and power draw of something not supermodern, but still just a few years old. On Jul 21, 2016 8:22 AM, "Gino Villarini" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all > > We are soon going to replace our 4 server cluster running vmware. our > server are dells we bought used about 4 years ago, they have served us well > but is time now to upgrade to something with a little more punch. > > Looking for used 1 year old gear, what woudl be the recommeded specs? > > We run VMs for Exchange, platypus, DNS and Web server, Intemapper > > >
