I would expect that from any SAN hardware vendor. - Sean
On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:07 AM, "David Mazzaccaro" <[email protected]> wrote: > “NetApp makes good SANs, and their support is great! (A drive starts to go > bad, and you get an email from support asking where to ship it to, etc. > Sometimes that is the first and perhaps only indication something is going > wrong.)” > > That is GREAT to hear, thx > > > > > From: Richard McClary [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:54 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: New to virtualization > > I’m really just getting started here myself, but… > > VM NICs connect to real ESX NICs, and you will need some ESX NICs for > redundancy, for management, for a possible DMZ in the future, etc. Oh yeah – > the ESX hosts need NICs for the iSCSI connection to the datastore. Figure on > getting some dedicated network switches as well and work out some subnetting > (so the management, kernel, and other connections are not a part of your main > LAN). > > NetApp makes good SANs, and their support is great! (A drive starts to go > bad, and you get an email from support asking where to ship it to, etc. > Sometimes that is the first and perhaps only indication something is going > wrong.) > > From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:04 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: New to virtualization > > Hi all, > > I am starting to investigate moving our aging network infrastructure into the > virtual world. > > ~ 10 servers, 6-7 years old > > Windows 2003 domain > > Exchange 2003 > > Citrix 4.0 farm > > ~190 users > > After some initial discussions w/ a reseller, here’s what they are > recommending: > > (3) DL 380 G7 servers (to host the VMs) ~$18,000 > > (1) Net App FAS2240 (this is the SAN that would host 12 600GB drives of > storage for the VMs) ~$20,000 > > VMWare essentials plus kit (VMware software) ~$5200 > > (3) MS Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise (this would allow the 3 HP servers to run 4 > Windows 2008 VMs each) > > I guess the way it would work is that the VMs would reside on the SAN, and > the 3 hosts would call up the SAN to load each VM utilizing the host’s CPU, > RAM, NIC, etc.)… right? > > I have meetings scheduled w/ 2 other vendors, but verbally both have started > the conversation along the same path as above. > > Being very new to VM, does the above scenario seem to make sense? > > It is hard for me to imagine all that traffic going between the SAN and the > host servers w/o creating a huge bottleneck (over gig Ethernet) > > Do people recommend virtualizing every server? > > Domain controllers? Exchange? Citrix farm (4 server)? > > Shouldn’t something be left physical? > > Is 7 TB of storage enough (probably only 3 usable after array config)? > > Is the net app a decent appliance? $20k sounds cheap to me… > > I have done a little more reading, and from what I understand w/ 3 Windows > Enterprise licenses, I would be limiting myself to 12 VMs. > > However, if I went w/ 3 Windows Datacenter licenses, for a small increase in > price - I would get unlimited VMs? > > Which would allow for actually having a testing environment, and better patch > deployment? > > Thx > > > . > ~ 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 > > > > The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from > The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and > is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain > legally privileged and/or confidential information. 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