Our telephony stuff is Nortel and some of it is already virtualized so we're open to giving it a try. If it doesn't work, we can always turn the physical back on. We've always been willing to try virtual even when the vendor/mfg said it wasn't supported. So far, we've only had to go physical on one application....;)
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM, John Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > -- 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/> ~
