On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:32, Don Kuhlman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
It depends a lot of on the load your users place in the machine, but if nothing else, I'd bump up RAM to the max if it's a 32bit OS - 3 or 3.5gb, or more if it's a 64bit OS. Definitely a larger OS partition - bump it to 40gb for 2003. My file/print VM serves about 200 staff, and it's got 2CPUs and 3gb RAM and 1 CPU. It was P2V'ed from a physical machine, and at that time it has been talking to the production LAN via its other NIC and with the SAN via another NIC and the MSFT iSCSI initiator. When we P2V'ed it, we kept that arrangement, and the disk space is divided up among 5 drives, the C: drive with the OS at about 75gb, and the rest totaling around 5tb, all on the SAN. We hang about 30 printers from that box, too. It works well enough for daily use, but I'm thinking of increasing the resources available to it by going to Win2k8R2 and giving it a lot more RAM and more NICs, because of backups and AV overhead. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
