Re: File & Print Server Thoughts

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:30:29 -0700

Thanks Z.  We used CIFS before at the other "larger" organization.  Maybe I will start that debate here again and see what comes out of it.
 
Also from Brian's (thanks) suggestion, if I lose the debate and have to go with Windows VMs servers to provide the functionality, I should try to add some more RAM and CPU.  I can go study the sizing recommendations for that to see where we may need to be.
 
I appreciate the feedback!
 
Don K
From: "Ziots, Edward" <[email protected]>
To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 9:37 AM
Subject: RE: File & Print Server Thoughts

CIFS share on the Celerra wouldn’t be a bad idea ( we use them here and its pretty reliable)
 
Honestly, if you had no other choice, then make a VM a file server, but I believe the celerra would be a better choice ( as long as you put cheap SATA disk to its LUN’s and not Solid State of Fibre Channel)
 
We virtualized all our Print servers about 2-3 years ago, never been happier, no big issues, and makes upgrades a snap ( literally snap em do the upgrade it blows up, revert and you are all good to go)
 
Z
 
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From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 10:32 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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