I've done a site a bit smaller, around 10,000 clients, on all VM's. My best
piece of advice would be to start with fewer CPU's, make sure the host are not
over-committed and make sure you can get the required iOPS and you should be
fine. More CPU's can actually cause VM's to run slower in some cases.
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John Marcum
MCITP, MCTS, MCSA
Desktop Architect
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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Behalf Of Denzik, Josh
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 6:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mssms] System Center Configuration Manager VM VS Physical
All,
I just wanted to ask anyone willing to share their experiences running an
entire SCCM infrastructure on VM's. I am currently managing approximately
18,000 machines in our current environment with a physical site server that has
24 cores and 32 GB of RAM(runs fine). We are getting ready to build a new site
after SCCM Vnext comes out with the official production release. Currently we
have our VM site server spec'd out at 8 Cores with 32 GB of RAM and all the
necessary storage for sql etc. We are also planning to have a additional MP as
well. We have fast storage in our data center so that's not an issue. We are
also worried about growth; and we close to the max our server team can give us
as far as server cores and ram. This was the recommended hardware
recommendations updated today per Microsoft
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt589500.aspx. I am expecting that
if we go with this VM setup that is should accommodate growth up to at least
40,000 clients? Is there a secret formula to figure this out? Is Physical the
preferred method? If anyone can please share their VM specs in a large SCCM
environment they are running that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance!
Joshua Denzik
Senior Systems Engineer | Managed Desktop Team | OCIO-IS
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