True. Sigh...
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! Sure but a good VAR should catch things like this before a proposal goes out the door. If you said max the RAM the licensing should support it. On Friday, April 13, 2012, David Mazzaccaro wrote: Good point, thanks. I may recall having said to them "just max the RAM in the hosts". I'll see what they come back with now. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'jonathan.l...@gmail.com');> ] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! Hold your VAR's feet to the fire! I would've configured the three hosts such that any two hit the vRAM entitlement limit when fully utilized, allowing you to handle the loss of one host. Does that make sense? On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:53 PM, David Mazzaccaro <david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com> wrote: Thx, getting clarification on this now... -----Original Message----- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! IIRC VMWare licensing only counts against running virtual machines, you may have 48 Gb of memory allocated to all the guests running on a single host but you're fine if only 32Gb of allocated memory are live ie running. You have WAY overkilled the memory installation. John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 -----Original Message----- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! So, even though I will have 588GB of RAM across all 3 hosts, VMware is only going to see and utilize 192GB? <confused> -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 2:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! OK one more thing: vSphere Essentials Plus gives you 6 socket licenses for vSphere Standard. Each license gives you 32gb of vRAM entitlement. 6 x 32 = 192gb vRAM across all three hosts. So 196gb per host seems slightly excessive (consider we can and occasionally do run around 50 VM's on one host with 144gb). ________________________________________ From: David Mazzaccaro [david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: 13 April 2012 5:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! LOL Yes, that is per host.. and it is HP memory (hence the premium) -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! I'm a penny-pincher, and I saw a only one thing that really stuck out... > 196 G RAM <- this was $45k alone Ouch! Is that 196 Gig per computer, or total for the 3 servers? Even if it's 196 per computer, Crucial can get you that much ram for $8100... As long as I'm looking at the right memory. http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=ProLiant%20DL380%20G7&; Cat=RAM <http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=ProLiant%20DL380%20G7 &%0d%0aCat=RAM> 48GB Kit - ($899.99 each) * 3 for each server ($2699.97) * 3 servers = $8099.91 <kidding>Hey, I just saved you $36k! Can I get a commission for that? Sm:)e.</kidding> --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:38:47 -0700 S . ~ 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 <javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.co m');> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ 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 . ~ 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
