The vSphere 4.1 upgrade guide recommends 2 cores and 4gb of RAM to support up to 50 hosts and 500 powered on virtual machines.
Jeff On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:18 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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... > ===== > 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! > -- > Richard D. McClary > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > *ASPCA®* > 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 > Urbana, IL 61802 > > [email protected] > > P: 217-337-9761 > C: 217-417-1182 > F: 217-337-9761 > *www.aspca.org* <http://www.aspca.org/> > > > The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is > from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA > ®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may > contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not > the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, > and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and > permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout > thereof. > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
