All depends on the infrastructure and your needs. Virtualisation certainly
gives you the opportunity to spread your services out by putting them across
multiple individual servers, but then you get that inevitable Virtual
Sprawl as your server estate bloats out, using up more storage, more
Every business is unique and virtualization has changed the game. It
all depends on how much down time your users can tolerate, the services
they require and the budget you have to work with. If you load up a
server with a dozen different features and have to reboot it because of
one of them
A server for every 4-5 users seems a little overkill to me. Unless maybe
they're doing some major CG filmmaking, or something...
Holstrom, Don dholst...@nbm.org 7/19/2010 6:54 AM
I only have a hundred users. Been doing this for about 12 years. I always
thought it was better to have more or
I rather agree with one server per major application. Two where redundancy is
important, and you can afford it.
But that should still be no more than a handful of servers in most environments
of 100 users...
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
WAY back when I first started working here, servers were regarded with
awe as exotic and expensive machines. We tried to get each one to do as
many functions (different apps and services) as it could handle.
Once the price on servers started to creep down, developers began to
specify that
My feeling is that the decision should be made on an individual basis. I
don't think I'd make a blanket statement that more servers or less
servers is best. In a small business fewer might be better; in a
high-availability business with a decent IT budget, more might be better,
just as examples.
Virtualization makes it easier to go the one major server per service
route, allowing you to consolidate hardware while at the same time
satisfying those developers that insist their apps require a dedicated
server (which I usually interpret as we're too lazy to develop and test
our app to the
Virtualization gives you the ability to consolidate servers intelligently.
Some applications need to be isolated on their own servers, and in some
cases, that is just a huge waste of processing power, as the concerns you
present can be mitigated in a different fashion.
You can get the results
We tried to go with server consolidation years ago (before VM was
popular) and kept running into issues with applications fighting with
each other on the same machines (particularly Cisco products). Now that
we're playing with VM and looking into blade servers, we're looking at
it again. Not a
Organization
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From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 11:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Do you all like fewer or more servers?
We tried to go with server consolidation years ago (before VM
We have about the same environment. We keep most services separate for the
reason you state. We decided to not not virutalilze large file servers.
That definition keeps changing though. Anything else is a candidate for a
VM. I really like having one (maybe two) services per server, it has
System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Do you all like fewer or more servers?
Maybe get rid of the CISCO apps. We are using blades with ESX and its working
quite nicely... Actually the blades are performing as good if not better than
the stand alone DL 580's we have for other ESX servers.
Z
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From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 1:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Do you all like fewer or more servers?
I have liked SuperMicro blades for the past six or seven years but I am being
told to go
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From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 1:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Do you all like fewer or more servers?
I
Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Do you all like fewer or more servers?
I have liked SuperMicro blades for the past six or seven years but I am
being told to go with Dell for the warrantees and the like. I know Dell
is
two or three times more expensive, is this worth it?
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