Boy, you've got that right. About 18 months ago, we started with about 30 servers on 5 hosts. It's now up to around 60 servers and just last week we doubled the memory in the hosts. I plan to budget for a new host next year.
-----Original Message----- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A question about Virtualization Good luck! Also consider "VM Sprawl". You may have 6 servers now, but that could very easily double or triple. (testing, backup, upgrades, redundancy, load balancing, etc...) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A question about Virtualization Thanks all, I know I will have 6 servers to virtualize. Outside of that I am not sure. I am waiting on specs. I will look through archives and trying and get more info going forward. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] Posted At: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 11:57 AM Posted To: [email protected] Conversation: A question about Virtualization Subject: Re: A question about Virtualization Hey David. My recommendation: Start small. Find a desktop with a VM enabled chip and create a little VM server. All of the major players have a free version to use: VMWare: ESXi (The industry standard) Microsot: Hyper-V Server (Quickly gaining popularity) Citrix: XenServer (Best for Desktop Virtualization, I hear.) Linux: ProxMox VE (Web-based VM, but no Desktop Virtualization option) ---- After you get your feet wet, you will then start to see what kind of investment you are in for. You'll have to start thinking of large servers to host VMs, with lots of processors/memory, not to mention extra networking and shared storage. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:28:21 -0800 Subject: A question about Virtualization > I have no experience with Virtualized anything. > > I have read VMware is better than Citrix. > > What kind of hardware do I put all of this on? > > A Blade server with a SAN back end? > > I really have no opinions or experience on any of this. > > Please don't flame me to badly. > > Thanks > > David > > > ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ 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 . ~ 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 ~ 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
