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Thanks. I try to do a N+1. I will always have enough resources to lose one esx server.<br />
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Great info coolsport. That's what I was thinking...
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Thanks. I try to do a N+1. I will always have enough resources to lose one esx server.

Great info coolsport. That's what I was thinking...

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I know this is broad, but at what point do you install an additional ESX host? The types of projects we do I never know at a budget cycle if to add 5 or 50 servers... it really depends on who has a &quot;wild hair&quot;.<br />
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I guess I'm looking for your thoughts on usage information. Say we hit 80% utilization its time to expand... storage, I know this varies based on what you keep, but should we expand the San at 70%? Really, just give your thoughts on the subject. No right or wrong answers.<br />
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Thanks.
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I know this is broad, but at what point do you install an additional ESX host? The types of projects we do I never know at a budget cycle if to add 5 or 50 servers... it really depends on who has a "wild hair".

I guess I'm looking for your thoughts on usage information. Say we hit 80% utilization its time to expand... storage, I know this varies based on what you keep, but should we expand the San at 70%? Really, just give your thoughts on the subject. No right or wrong answers.

Thanks.

when to add esx host

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.

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.