We recently faced this question when designing a brand new data centre. We decided there was not much point in virtualising the media servers, since they are just I/O machines and will probably (hopefully) saturate SOME part of the infrastructure they're running on, be it inbound network, outband I/O to disk/tape, or the bus on the server's motherboard. The ONLY physical (non-virtualised) servers in this new data centre are our NBU media servers.
The NBU master however is virtual, and we recently did a site fail-over test of the master using VMware SRM, and it worked just fine. (Cisco UCS, VMware 4.1, NBU 7.1, RHEL6) As another data point, I just completed vSphere 5 training this week, and the very knowledgeable instructor said "These days, the only thing that obviously shouldn't be virtualised is backup servers". Cheers Dean On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:37 AM, <brian_tho...@playstation.sony.com> wrote: > I work for Sony Playstation and we are moving a racked stand-alone Master > & Media server configuration to a new data center. > I am on version 7.1 and am considering virtualizing the entire > infrastructure. Has anyone successfully done this yet and did you run into > any gotchas? > > Regards > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > >
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