Your RAM and CPU allocations are not anywhere near appropriate IMO.

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
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From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 9:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: File & Print Server Thoughts

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

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