Well for the VMotion to work as described you also need to use SAN, the LUN's need to be visible to all the esx servers in the farm to get the true benefits. But depending on your budget, if you are looking to do esx server farms hopefully you're using SAN. One thing I've seen folks do especially as they start is to have a few medium size servers(2 cpus) plus 1 big(4+ cpus) as overflow. This way you get a feel for what the equipment can handle, (and if what your app folks are telling you is true), if something spikes you can move stuff to the bigger box via VMotion, all this with no downtime to the client.
On 4/13/06, Ben Ruset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ESX supports clustering VM's, so if a single ESX box goes down, the VM > stays up and the host load gets transferred to another ESX server. > > Also, if you had a bunch of ESX servers you can dynamically distribute > VM's across the entire server farm. > > The only hardware requirement to running ESX is a SCSI disk, and a > dedicated management NIC. > > Mesdaq, Ali wrote: > > What do you run it on and what are the typical uses? I am working on a > > virtualization project so I am pretty interested in your experience. > > > -- -jmg -sapere aude
