Manu Fernandes wrote: > Is there someone with experience on these plateform. > I talk about 60 users ServerEdition +- 500 accounts (accounting > package).
This should work as long as the host OS has a _lot_ of RAM and CPU power. For production use I recommend 2-6GB of RAM for the host, though the maximum RAM allocation to virtual server is only 3.6GB. No less than 1GB should be allocated to the host in a production environment. The CPU should be a P2.8 or AMD 4200+ or better. The host should be used only minimally while the guest is running. A virtual server only virtualizes a uni-processor, so even if you have a dual core or SMP host you won't see the same benefits. Dual core and SMP help to offload host operations from the guest. There are reasons to not be cheap with the host resources. Don't under-allocate disk to the virtual system because it's difficult to add more, and avoid dynamic disks for production servers. We use virtual guest systems to do testing all the time. For us it's just like another box on the network, impossible to tell from another piece of hardware. There is never a problem with stability, only with resources. We are not, however, running 60 users off of a live environment on one of them so there might be unforeseen issues. Ensure you get regular backups which are exported out of the virtual AND out of the host OS. Don't keep everything on the same hardware. Please check my facts, I might be a little off and will defer to someone else's deeper expertise, but I think these are reasonable guidelines. Regards to Daniel Dries if he is still at InfoData. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
