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Hi All,<br />
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Currently we have got 35 Physical Servers all running with local storage.<br />
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I am starting a planning project to look at moving to VMWare ESX and SAN's to streamline the hardware and get more value out of the hardware.<br />
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This is a field I know little about, I have used ESX in passing but not done much with it.<br />
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So my question is can someone point me at some documents / resources that are going to be helpful in me working out a plan, what to purchase etc.<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
<br />
Paul
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Hi All,

Currently we have got 35 Physical Servers all running with local storage.

I am starting a planning project to look at moving to VMWare ESX and SAN's to streamline the hardware and get more value out of the hardware.

This is a field I know little about, I have used ESX in passing but not done much with it.

So my question is can someone point me at some documents / resources that are going to be helpful in me working out a plan, what to purchase etc.

Thanks

Paul

Working Out A Migration Plan From Physical to Virtual

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.