Pablo I can tell what hardware we use for VCL - other people may have different setups.
We use IBM's Blade Center H chassis with HS21/22 blades (7870 type): - 2xCPUs, from Xeon X5550 (older) to X5660 (newer), - 24GB to 48GB of memory, - 2x73GB RAID1 local storage (system only, can be replaced by embedded VMWare) CPU and memory per blade will depend on how many VMs you would like to have on a ESXi host, or what is an application's hardware requirement if you plan to use xCAT. Storage is N6040 (NetApp FAS3140 equivalent), using NFS - very flexibile and fast (NetApp works well with VMWARE). I would recommend to have de-duplication license, it saves a lot of space on the volume where you store images. You will need two separate networks - Private (to be used by VCL) and Public (users access to reservations). I hope it helps. Let me know if you want to know something else... Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Monday, April 9, 2012 at 15:00 , Pablo J. Rebollo-Sosa wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested to know about the typical hardware used to implement the > VCL solution in terms of chassis, CPU/cores, memory, storage, etc. > > Thanks in advanced. > > Pablo J. Rebollo-Sosa
