With big servers, lots of RAM, and ESX the ONLY thing that would be out of the question for virtualization is REALLY heavy hitters like SAP R3 production servers.
We've been virtualizing everything we can. Given what I've seen out of our ESX servers (quad quad-core DL580 64GB RAM), I wouldn't be afraid of even a fairly heavily loaded e2k3 system. SQL may be a different story, but because of RAM, not performance. ESX rocks! From: Fogarty Richard MR - CONTR - Team EITC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare / Virtualization When virtualizing a datacenter is there a stand fast rule on what one can/cannot virtualize? For example, we're not scheduled to upgrade to E2k7 for some time, so I'd like to virtualize our E2k3 boxes. We've used the capacity planner and very little of our existing infrastructure is being taxed. Our SQL boxes run with all of our DBs on a SAN with fiber channel (as do all of our Exchange stores) - so I'm assuming that most should be fine. I know I've heard some of you say that you'd never virtualize everything, so are DCs the only systems you'd leave on a physical box? (Mind you, this is outside the obvious systems where you'd get no ROI) Comments? Thanks in advance, Rick ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
