We virtualize EVERYTHING that can run virtual regardless. The only things we have that aren't virtual is our big SAP app and DB servers, and when the next version of ESX comes out with more memory and CPUs per virtual, we are going after some of them.
This used to cause no end of whining from our application owners and business units: "Oh, our app/database/whatever is too resource intensive to run virtual", "We have to have real hardware for our mission critical apps", etc. Fortunately, our director took a hard line that virtual is THE standard unless someone can PROVE that their app or DB can't run virtual. About the only thing we do different for VMs is that our critical servers get a weekly snapshot of the VMDK files backed up to storage across town (via a script) for disaster recovery purposes. For DR, we spin up the copied VMDK files on a couple of ESX servers at our alternate datacenter, then we use our normal backup system to recover volatile data. This sped up our disaster recovery by about a factor of three. We love ESX/VSphere! Ken Cornetet 812.482.8499 To err is human - to moo, bovine. From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VM's in AD Do you guys treat VM's any differently than a physical machine? In my environment we are starting to get several of our Mac developers having WinOS VM's running on them. David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Mobile 503.267.9764 ~ 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]<mailto:[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
