We are deploying Windows 7 under our campus license, using a KMS server to activate running instances of Windows.
Aaron On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Michael Jinks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aaron. > > We chose not to use vSphere mainly because of licensing restrictions on > the Windows versions we'd be allowed to deploy. At least according to > our license agreements, we can't use vSphere and a "desktop" class > version of Windows. If we want to deploy Windows 7, we have to do it on > ESXi or another "standalone" virtualization platform. > > Does that mesh with your experience? Are you deploying Windows 7 in > your environment? > > Thanks, > -mrj > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:08:15PM +0000, Aaron Coburn wrote: >> Michael, >> >> we are using a vCenter cluster for our VMware hosts. In this way, the >> vcl knows only about a single VM host, when actually there are several >> ESX servers behind the scenes. VMware then manages all of the resource >> and load balancing -- the VCL isn't really designed to manage this. >> This means that when one server is consuming too much CPU or memory, >> then the VM is "vMotioned" to another physical host. >> >> The downside of this is that it requires the more expensive >> (Enterprise) VMware license; also, depending on how you manage your >> datastore disk extents, you may run into VMware's 2TB disk limits >> (unless you are already using vSphere 5) -- note that you will need to >> use shared SAN storage across all of your ESX hosts in order to enable >> VMware's Distributed Resource Scheduler (that is what manages the load >> balancing). >> >> Aaron Coburn >> >> -- >> Aaron Coburn >> Systems Administrator and Programmer >> Academic Technology Services, Amherst College >> [1][email protected] >> On Oct 23, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Michael Jinks <[2][email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi List. >> We designed our deployment with the idea that we could use the VM >> limit >> setting in the Virtual Hosts configuration page. Since that setting >> doesn't actually do anything, now I wonder, what are other sites >> doing >> in order to manage load on your virtual hosts? >> Related to that, any tips on doing load testing to see what our >> environment can handle given our expected work load, hardware setup >> and >> so forth? When we thought we could adjust things on the fly with a >> slider, I was less concerned about knowing in advance what a single >> host >> can take. Now I realize we'll need to be very careful in advance >> when >> it comes to assigning virtual computers to hosts, so any tips on >> planning and testing that would be welcome. >> Thanks. >> -mrj >> -- >> Michael Jinks :: [3][email protected] >> University of Chicago IT Services >> >> References >> >> 1. mailto:[email protected] >> 2. mailto:[email protected] >> 3. mailto:[email protected] > > -- > Michael Jinks :: [email protected] :: 773-469-9688 > University of Chicago IT Services
