Hi Guys, Im a Business Development Manager trying to convince our company to convert our datacenter into a Private Cloud using Cloudstack. Currently things are set up in a Baremetal sort of set up. Im not super technical, more so on a business and risk side of things. And to have this approved by our management, I will need to address some of their concerns.
Concern 1: Some of our applications requires High Availability. On a software level, we have covered this. But on a hardware level, is there a way to deploy our applications in a way where each HA Service is deployed in a different physical server (or cluster). This is to avoid any one server taking down the entire service (assuming both HA Applications are deployed as separate VMs, but in the same physical server). Concern 2: Is there any benchmarks only that compares the performance of bare metal and VM? I understand there is a slight drop in performance, but how much is that? Some of the system we currently deploy on bare metal are MSSQL Databases and other services that have very high network IO. Are any benchmarks available online? And can those performance degredations be restored/matched by compensating with more CPU/RAM allocation to the VM? Appreciate the help. Regardfs, Bryan
