Greetings!
I plan on continuing my search on this issue (as well as contacting the
VMUser group forum), but as this group generally has somebody giving a
quick AND USEFUL response, I thought I'd post here...
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Currently, we have an old PE-850 with one "Pentium III, 1.266 GHz" and 3
Gb RAM. It runs two applications...
UltraBac backup software (and it feeds a Quantum PX-502 tape library)
VMware vCenter 2.5
We are looking to replace the PX-502. The library at which we are looking
requires an external SAS port. Given the nature of the slots on the PE
("regular", circa 2003 PCI slots), we've been told it is difficult to find
a SAS adapter for these slots. Consequently (and also due to its age), we
are now server shopping.
vCenter functions would be for management only. However, we will need to
go to VMWare products 4.1 and beyond (ESX would be on other host servers).
Specific questions:
1. Would it be a mistake to continue to use a single server for both
vCenter management and for running network-wide backups to the local tape
library? In other words, should we replace the PE-850 with two servers
instead?
2. For the vCenter, what would be an "optimal minimum" for CPU? That is,
how many cores in how many processors? (That is, single quad, dual quad,
single single core, etc)?
We can't really "shoot the moon" on this as we do have a limited budget
for this. Thanks!
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