Hi Folks: Over the next year I'll be replacing/moving around most of my servers here at HQ. Currently I have "traditional" hardware servers. I'm wondering at what point to I need to move, if at all, to clustering/SAN/virtual servers. At my regional sites (all 50 staff or less) the model will remain a traditional server hardware. However here at HQ (6 buildings) I am not so sure. I have about 400 staff members here using several servers for e-mail and file and print, as well as the typical variety of utility, web, and so on servers. None of the servers consume a huge amount of disk space for files or for e-mail (fairly stringent disk space quotas for e-mail). Suggestions? I'll be moving to Windows 2008, and I thought I read that you can cluster 2 servers without additional licenses. I'm not sure about SANs, since that my be overkill here, and I haven't done anything with virtualization yet (other than desktop). Reliability is important, but so is cost. Being a non-profit, I don't have lots of funds for extra hardware unless I can justify it. Comments and suggestions appreciated. Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board 757-788-0528 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
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