Re: [ilugd] Things to consider for Server Utilization

2009-12-04 Thread Rahul Bhargava
what I am concerned about right now, is to find out the actual utilization of each physical server. This is how I can determine how many applications I can club into what kind of machines. Some applications are home made and some are like SAP and Oracle DBs. I am planning to calculate the

Re: [ilugd] Things to consider for Server Utilization

2009-12-04 Thread Rahul Bhargava
Yes, every global zone will be clustered. I don't mean to be pedantic but Zones are usually isolated virtual servers on a single OS instance, while your email talks about clustering several hundred machines. Maybe you need these and cluster zones too. And most of the machines are Solaris, so

Re: [ilugd] Things to consider for Server Utilization

2009-12-04 Thread Smruti Mandal
appreciated. Regards, Smruti -- Sent from hand held device. Pls excuse typos. -original message- Subject: Re: [ilugd] Things to consider for Server Utilization From: Rahul Bhargava rhlbh...@gmail.com Date: 04/12/2009 1:57 pm Yes, every global zone will be clustered. I don't mean to be pedantic

Re: [ilugd] Things to consider for Server Utilization

2009-12-04 Thread Piyush Kumar
typos. -original message- Subject: Re: [ilugd] Things to consider for Server Utilization From: Rahul Bhargava rhlbh...@gmail.com Date: 04/12/2009 1:57 pm Yes, every global zone will be clustered. I don't mean to be pedantic but Zones are usually isolated virtual servers on a single OS

[ilugd] Things to consider for Server Utilization

2009-12-03 Thread Smruti
Hi, We have a few hundred physical *nix servers and thinking of virtualizing them. So, could you please tell how to go about virtulizating them. The first step would be obviously to calculate the actual utilization of hardware for each server. So, what are the things to consider while

Re: [ilugd] Things to consider for Server Utilization

2009-12-03 Thread Rahul Bhargava
Hi Smruti, It is possible to dynamically resize both the processing and storage clusters, so it isn't necessary to start with estimates of utilization necessarily. Though, where the application requires a lot of storage or quick disk access, this will affect the types of disks used and

Re: [ilugd] Things to consider for Server Utilization

2009-12-03 Thread Smruti
2009/12/4 Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com: Hi, We have a few hundred physical *nix servers and thinking of virtualizing them. So, could you please tell how to go about virtulizating them. The first step would be obviously to calculate the actual utilization of hardware for each