Exactly what we were thinking here too. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare / Virtualization
I'd agree with most here There may be some special cases that do not warrant virtualisation as people have mentioned, fortunately our network has a limited amount of them. We have successfully virtualised multiples of Exchange 2k7, SQL, all dc's, and a host of other stuff. 40 or so in total. Our hosts are 2x quad cores with 16gb ram at present. There has been no need to upgrade memory at this point but we keep a fair bit of head room for host failover. I love the DR scenarios it allows me with consummate ease and also the provisioning of new servers takes bugger all time now. Unfortunately we are limited to our real failover without vmotion as yet but you cant win them all. Greg ________________________________________ From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2008 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare / Virtualization Excellent points. I had forgotten about our RAS box and I didn't know about the Oracle issue - I'll have to dig into that one. E2k7 - that shouldn't be an issue as we have an Enterprise agreement and moving it to a physical box for support shouldn't be an issue. -----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare / Virtualization Anything that requires specialized ISA/PCI/PCI-X/PCI-E hardware - fax cards, crypto cards, etc - absolutely cannot be virtualized. Anything that's timing sensitive - VoIP, software that needs to communicate over serial or parallel - might or might not work. VoIP in particular is discouraged for production but is passable for testing purposes. Anything else is fair game, but be aware that not all applications are supported in a virtualized environment. E2k7 is one of them (but I'm sure Hyper-V will be officially supported - gee, imagine that), Oracle is another. That's not to say it won't work, it's just that if: a) they find out it's virtualized b) trace a problem you're having to the fact that it's virtualized the support people will say "we can't help you". Fogarty Richard MR - CONTR - Team EITC wrote: > When virtualizing a datacenter is there a stand fast rule on what one > can/cannot virtualize? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
