As most of ya'll know, we run VMWare ESX here at my organization. We've invested a lot into this technology because we believe that it will keep TCO down. We've been working on a project to convert as many physical boxes to virtual as possible for the last few months using the VMWare built in P2V tool. Well, we've gotten to the point that we have successfully virtualized enough servers that we can empty a Compaq rack (and probably more when we start cleaning out the racks of old equipment). We have virtualized our Citrix environment (6 servers), an unused but necessary for historical data accounting server, and SMS yes, SMS virtualized, it's sweet and some other systems. We have 2 of our ESX servers with 64GB memory and 8 cores, have had one of them load tested with 45 guests running on it and it didn't even go over 50% utilization on resources. Basically at this point all we have running on a physical box are DC's (although I have an AD domain in my DMZ that is all virtual), Exchange, ISA, backup server, Oracle servers, some telephony stuff, monitoring and file and print servers. We are looking at virtualizing the telephony stuff and maybe even the file and print, and will most likely have one of our E2K7 boxes as a virtual box when we go to E2K7 which is currently in progress.
Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!! -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Great to hear! Watch out on the telephony virtualization, I'm told that latency is horid and OCS isn't even supported in virtual. YMMV John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Painfully sent to you from my Blackberry ________________________________ From: Sherry Abercrombie To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri Nov 21 12:08:55 2008 Subject: VMWare Success Story ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
