Here's some things I learned:
* The host servers will have several NICS. They will connect to the new switches (2 for redundancy), and the 2 new switches connect the SAN. The host servers also connect to your LAN via their other NICs, but you have to think of the SAN as its own mini environment. * IOPS (in/out per second) are critically important. Dell has a free tool (DPACK) that you can download and run over a few days that will give you an idea of your IOPS, storage, CPU, RAM, throughput, RW ratio, etc... NetApp will likely charge for a similar report. Just knowing your IOPS will help greatly in making sure you buy an adequate SAN. For the SAN, generally these calculations are used: 15k drive ~175 IOPS per spindle 10k drive ~150 IOPS per spindle * Don't forget about your backups. They will very likely change from what you are doing now. * Training! From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A question about Virtualization I have no experience with Virtualized anything. I have read VMware is better than Citrix. What kind of hardware do I put all of this on? A Blade server with a SAN back end? I really have no opinions or experience on any of this. Please don't flame me to badly. Thanks David ~ 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
