> > Why are others looking into virtual? $$ or copy paste to new device? >
I have saved over $40k going to this architecture thus far, and had I needed to license VirtualCenter it would have only added maybe $3k more. $57k would have been my cost with all physical machines vs $17k current cost with ESXi - and that includes some hardware unrelated to ESXi other than me playing with VMware's other offerings first. Cheap any way one slices it. Plus I am using it as a quick way to recover from a machine loss, where I have copies of my VMs on a 2nd machine's backup drive (as well as a duplicate of all production VMs on both ESXi Servers. In my case a Dell EqualLogic iSAN would be real nice, but totally needless. If I end up having over 8 or 10 ESXi Servers, then an iSAN and VirtualCenter would begin to make sense. Gil Gilbert M. Hale [email protected] 585-359-8085 - Office (Rolls To Cellular) 585-202-4341 - Cellular/Voice Mail > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell > Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] VMware ESXi Server, and other VMware virtualization > solutions > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Peter Cushing < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Gilbert M. Hale wrote: > > > Greetings! > > > > > > > > > > > > For anyone interested in virtualization for running multiple > concurrent > > > machines on a host system, this is for you! Anyone else is invited > to > > read > > > and store the info for later. I am hoping to fend off grief for > folks > > > seeking virtual Nirvana. > > > > > > <Snip> > > > > > > > Very interesting Gil, > > > > We've been doing a bit of virtualisation here. Well actually my boss > > has been doing most of it and I've just stood there looking > interested :-) > > > > We liked the idea of being independent of the hardware so that if it > > fails we can get up and running very quickly. We have virtualised a > few > > servers using Vmware including my back office VFP app which prints > and > > emails jobs all day. We don't think that ESXi is the way to go for > us > > as the hardware has to be a lot more specific to be able to run that > > OS. We want to be able to run the VM stuff on any half decent > machine > > and be up and running quickly. You were saying you got lucky with > your > > hardware but we don't want to take any chances. My boss also thinks > the > > extra complexity of handling the OS layer makes it more difficult to > > support in a small IT department like ours. > > ---------------------- > > > We are going to look into virtualization as well. Costs are so high > that we > probably won't do it. Looking at taking SS for a variety of clients > and > putting small ones on a virtual machine instead of the little mini > servers > we have for each one. > > Takes 8 underused boxes into one Mega server, 16 cpu 32 gig ram to > start > maybe jacked up to 64 gig? > > All data will be stored on a SAN or a killer raid that is fiber > connected. > > > The high end VMWare is costly but it allows us to really get the > control > between the virtual machines with respect to SQL Server. Putting dbs > int > 2008 all us to throttle various process and back off on the little > stuff > like log shipping. > > Why are others looking into virtual? $$ or copy paste to new device? > -- > Stephen Russell > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > SQL Server DBA > Web and Winform Development > Independent Contractor > Memphis TN > > 901.246-0159 > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
