VMware - some advice needed
Hi
I am competley new to using VMware. Havent touched it all before. My company hosts servers. And we are looking to hosts multiple servers on the one machine. We host and configure small business servers...can I run multiple sbs (domain controllers) on the same machine? What are the benifts to using VMware? And someone told me about it being a very good disaster recovery solution, apparantley you can backup the image of the OS...is this true? Anyone advice will be appreicated.
Thanks
I am competley new to using VMware. Havent touched it all before. My company hosts servers. And we are looking to hosts multiple servers on the one machine. We host and configure small business servers...can I run multiple sbs (domain controllers) on the same machine? What are the benifts to using VMware? And someone told me about it being a very good disaster recovery solution, apparantley you can backup the image of the OS...is this true? Anyone advice will be appreicated.
Thanks
Brian Pierce
While you technically could run multiple SBS servers on a host in VMware, remember that you are only allowed ONE SBS server in any domain, so unless you plan to have multiple independant domains there would be little point.
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Well, we are looking to have multiple independant domains,basically one domain controller for each company that pays us a rental fee of the server. So basically they get exchange/sharepoint/OWA etc....I have been warned that you shouldnt have multple small business server not only in the same domain (as I understand that this is big no no) but also under the same network, is this true?
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Thanks for this, I wont be having machines on the same domain anyhow. Can you have devices on seperate subnets? For example I may have windows 2003 server,and windows 2003 sbs server, is it possible to set them up on seperate subnets so that there will be no communication between them?
You can even do vlan Tagging and team NIC ports for greater thru put.
Just to clarify, the reason for the minimum of two or three esx hosts is for redundancy. Like RAID, if any one of the ESX hosts fails, the others pick up and carries on.
What you do, is spread your multiple virtualized servers as evenly as possible across the two or three or more ESX hosts for resource allocation and performance.
It's pretty neat...not to mention the reduction of server sprawl, heat reduction, cooling requirements and hardware costs over time.........
Just to clarify, the reason for the minimum of two or three esx hosts is for redundancy. Like RAID, if any one of the ESX hosts fails, the others pick up and carries on.
What you do, is spread your multiple virtualized servers as evenly as possible across the two or three or more ESX hosts for resource allocation and performance.
It's pretty neat...not to mention the reduction of server sprawl, heat reduction, cooling requirements and hardware costs over time.........
ASKER
Excellent thanks for the advice.