Oh, we have an HP EVA SAN and that would be where our file & print data would go.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Jason Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great stuff! > > > > I would personally look to run a NAS appliance or SAN for the file part of > your file and print servers, but it looks like you all did what ESX was > meant to do. > > > > Thanks for sharing! > > Jason > > > > *From:* Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Friday, November 21, 2008 11:09 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* VMWare Success Story > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The pages accompanying this email transmission contain information from MJMC, > Inc., which > is confidential and/or privileged. The information is to be for the use of > the individual > or entity named on this cover sheet. If you are not the intended recipient, > you are > hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying > of this > communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmission in > error, please > immediately notify us by telephone so that we can arrange for the retrieval > of the original > document. > > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
