Re: Some advice re Servers Virtualization

2011-01-07 Thread Andrew S. Baker
How do you plan to configure the drives for storage of the databases? What kind of databases will these be?Will the database servers also be virtualized? I ask this because RAID5 *might* not be what you want to do for heavily used databases. *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me

Re: Some advice re Servers Virtualization

2011-01-07 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Okay. How much RAM do you expect to devote to each DB server? So far, the specs don't look like a problem, but specific details could raise red flags... *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Fri, Jan 7, 2011

RE: Some advice re Servers Virtualization

2011-01-07 Thread Ziots, Edward
: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Some advice re Servers Virtualization Okay. How much RAM do you expect to devote to each DB server? So far, the specs don't look like a problem, but specific

Re: Some advice re Servers Virtualization

2011-01-07 Thread Pierre Camilleri
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Some advice re Servers Virtualization

2011-01-06 Thread pierre . camilleri
Hi all I am currently planning on having some of our ageing rack servers virtualized and am currently looking at the following hardware to do this: Dell PE R510 which will be hosting the Virtual servers (circa 7-10) and VMware vSphere 4.1 Dell PV MD3200i iSCSI SAN which will be hosting our

Re: Some advice re Servers Virtualization

2011-01-06 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You might want to provide some more specs about that hardware so folks can comment on the configuration. How much RAM, what type of processors, how many disks, of what size, what type of network, how many NICs... And so forth. *ASB *(My Bio via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio)