Good day folks. I've been asked to do a proposal for splitting the current primary File & Print server at the HQ to ease the load and provide some room for growth. I was hoping for some comments on the thoughts below... It's a VM running Server 2003 R2 SP2. 1 CPU with 2 Gb Ram with a single 1 Gig Nic The drives are broken down as follows: C: 20 GB 2.17 GB Free 10% E: - (Shared) 525 GB 485GB Used 39.26 GB Free 7% F: - (Userdata) 1260 GB 1.22TB used 360 MB Free 0% G: - (DepartmentData) 1625 GB 1.15TB used 444.79 GB Free 27% Print Server with about 120 Printers My thoughts were: 1) Provision 1 vm for print services - 1 CPU 1 gig RAM, 20 Gig C: drive and move the printers to that. 2) Provision 1 new VM for Userdata - 1 CPU 2 gig RAM, 20 gig C: drive for OS, 1.5 TB Userdata (approx 20% growth) and migrate the data to that 3) Leave the Shared and Userdata on the existing box and add 60 gig to the Shared drive for growth. Alternatively, I had thought about creating a CIFS Share for these with the EMC Celerra and doing away with the Windows VMs altogether, but the lead Storage/SAN guy here said he didn't want to go that route. Any comments appreciated! Thanks Don K ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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