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Stay away from shared storage unless you have no other choice. There's no reason local storage should not do the trick for you. Even if you had a second host that was only a replication target or a...
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Although I agree to a certain extent about shared storage, with proper working and tested backups and redundant switches et all this isn't a problem. The same applies to a single host scenario,...
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Some light reading on choosing a storage type: http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/08/choosing-a-storage-type
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NetworkNerd wrote: I agree with the others about profiling workloads before you make a purchase. Also consider the cost of downtime in all of this. What is the business impact of one hour of downtime?...
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R0quef0rt wrote: - Dell PowerEdge R620 - x2 Xeon E5-2630's (6 core, 12 threads, 2.3ghz) - x4 8GB RDIMM's at 1600MT's I think you might be a bit light on for memory for 8 - 16 VMs. 4 x 8GB = 16 GB per...
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I'd agree with many of the others; it makes far more sense to have a second host than to have one host with 2 very hefty processors. If you have a Dell account manager, I'm sure that they would supply...
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Gabrielle.L wrote: One thing that's conspicuously absent from your setup is backup and disaster recovery hardware/software. Unlike regnor, I don't see a problem with a single host but only if you have...
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Gabrielle.L wrote:John White has an excellent virtualization roadmap here: http://spiceworks-faqs.john-refactored.com/doku.php?id=virtualization:roadmap"Realize that live workload migration between...
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RotoAaron wrote: Gabrielle.L wrote:John White has an excellent virtualization roadmap here: http://spiceworks-faqs.john-refactored.com/doku.php?id=virtualization:roadmap"Realize that live workload...
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Gabrielle.L wrote: RotoAaron wrote: Gabrielle.L wrote:John White has an excellent virtualization roadmap here: http://spiceworks-faqs.john-refactored.com/doku.php?id=virtualization:roadmap"Realize...
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RotoAaron wrote: Gabrielle.L wrote:John White has an excellent virtualization roadmap here: http://spiceworks-faqs.john-refactored.com/doku.php?id=virtualization:roadmap"Realize that live workload...
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RotoAaron wrote: The cheapest way to get vMotion/vSphere Replication/High Availability is VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit which is $5,439.00 and limited to 3 hosts. Hyper-V Clustering, Hyper-V...
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Gabrielle.L wrote:John White has an excellent virtualization roadmap here: http://spiceworks-faqs.john-refactored.com/doku.php?id=virtualization:roadmap Step one would be to profile your current...
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With the next step up adding replication to a second host for quick recoveries.
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Gabrielle.L wrote: RotoAaron wrote: Gabrielle.L wrote:John White has an excellent virtualization roadmap here: http://spiceworks-faqs.john-refactored.com/doku.php?id=virtualization:roadmap"Realize...
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I'm with everyone else, cut the CPU budget back (even cheaper 56xx series should be fine for your workload) and up the memory and storage. With these systems you WILL BE SPINDLE BOUND without more disks.
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John773 wrote: Considering on Hyper-V your looking at patching more often, with added time associated with this process vs just rolling between nodes, or shutting down the VM's I'd argue the time...
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John White wrote: RotoAaron wrote: The cheapest way to get vMotion/vSphere Replication/High Availability is VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit which is $5,439.00 and limited to 3 hosts. Hyper-V...
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We are discussing local storage configs...
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