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Ken Cornetet 812.482.8499 To err is human - to moo, bovine. From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 8:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VM's in AD Are you in southern Indiana? On Jun 2, 2011 8:34 AM, "Ken Cornetet" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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]<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]><mailto:[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]<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]<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
