+1 Just those two changes would be immensely beneficial. * *
*ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Brian Desmond <[email protected]>wrote: > *Your RAM and CPU allocations are not anywhere near appropriate IMO. * > > * * > > *Thanks,* > > *Brian Desmond* > > *[email protected]* <[email protected]>** > > * * > > *c – 312.731.3132* > > * * > > *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**** > > > ~ 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
