Forgot I even sent this... On Tuesday, March 13, 2012, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> wrote: > If I were doing licensing from scratch, I'd go Datacenter, even accounting for the CPU licensing, it's not all that much more. The ability to add and move servers, "thinly" provision servers, etc makes a a much more robust environment. > > When I say thinly provision servers, I mean, making a server responsible for only one task, such as AV management, BES, whatever, without putting additional duties on it as is common in a physical server environment. > > David: of the physical servers, if you had your druthers and could isolate the tasks out to an individual server, how many servers would you really have? Or are all those servers only doing one task, already? > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Ralph Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > “However, if I went w/ 3 Windows Datacenter licenses, for a small increase in price - I would get unlimited VMs? “ > > Datacenter is licensed per CPU – those are dual CPU servers so you would need 6 Datacenter licenses. > > > > From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:04 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? > > ~ 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
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