Hi Don,
Very few people (if any) run hardware management servers. The model depends on
which hypervisor you use – but a typical installation will run a small
hypervisor management cluster just to host the management and MySQL VMs as well
as any other infrastructure VMs required – so you probably just need compute
capacity for 3-4 VMs at the most. I would guess your 32GB servers would do for
this and then you can use the rest as of your hardware as dedicated compute
hosts.
Regards,
Dag Sonstebo
Cloud Architect
ShapeBlue
On 04/07/2018, 11:45, "Donald Fountain" <d...@gravityservers.com> wrote:
Paul/Dag:
Thanks, this is actually what I was looking for was more of a general
overview and thoughts.
As for the 2 NIC boxes, yeah, not exactly what I'd vote to have, but
there aren't a ton of them, and I can either mark them for low usage,
grab one for a management server, etc.
Any recommended hardware sizes for the management servers? Have some
E3-1240s w/32GB of RAM extra; should these be able to handle the load,
or should I bump that up? If so, cores, Ghz, or RAM?
And have a perfect case to start small, that can be a lazy migration
(~30 VMs), so hopefully, I can unearth at least the big nastys with that.
Thanks,
Don
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