On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:04 AM, David Mazzaccaro <david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com> wrote: > I am starting to investigate moving our aging network infrastructure into > the virtual world.
Your questions sound similar to the ones I had a few months ago. You should prolly review this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com/msg106517.html > I guess the way it would work is that the VMs would reside on the SAN, and > the 3 hosts would call up the SAN to load each VM utilizing the host’s CPU, > RAM, NIC, etc.)… right? Right. The storage for each VM lives on the SAN. The VMs run on the HP servers. It's basically just a different way of attaching disks. > Being very new to VM, does the above scenario seem to make sense? For some value of "sense". > It is hard for me to imagine all that traffic going between the SAN and the > host servers w/o creating a huge bottleneck (over gig Ethernet) As opposed to what? > Do people recommend virtualizing every server? Varies. From what I've seen, a common recommendation is to have some core IP & AD infrastructure (DNS and DC) available on a dedicated physical box, for a "cold start" scenario. Otherwise the VM host can end up trying to talk to DNS or DC to start the VM which holds for DNS/DC. > Is 7 TB of storage enough (probably only 3 usable after array config)? That depends *entirely* on how much data you're storing. > I have done a little more reading, and from what I understand w/ 3 Windows > Enterprise licenses, I would be limiting myself to 12 VMs. Yes, and the host would be restricted to providing VM hosting *only*. You're not permitted to do anything else on the host OS. > However, if I went w/ 3 Windows Datacenter licenses, for a small increase in > price - I would get unlimited VMs? Yes. Be aware that you need a DC license *per physical processor* (chip package), and it's a minimum of two per physical host. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
