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litmic

System Infrastructure Architect

Louis LIETAER

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Use for infrastructure about 7 servers
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The HCI will use for infrastructure about 7 servers
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The HCI will use for infrastructure about 7 servers

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Then I would get quotes for the three vendors I listed above from a partner who will work with you to get you the best solution, for the best price, for what you need. For infrastructure servers,<br />
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<b>DISCLAIMER: I work for a partner who works with all three vendors and sells all three HCI solutions.</b>
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Then I would get quotes for the three vendors I listed above from a partner who will work with you to get you the best solution, for the best price, for what you need. For infrastructure servers,

DISCLAIMER: I work for a partner who works with all three vendors and sells all three HCI solutions.

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VMware vSphere - vSAN then.<br />
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But what is your budget ?<br />
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and do you require a HCI solution ?
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VMware vSphere - vSAN then.

But what is your budget ?

and do you require a HCI solution ?

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What is the workload of those 7 VMs ?<br />
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e.g. what functions do they perform ?
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What is the workload of those 7 VMs ?

e.g. what functions do they perform ?

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AD, file server, mail sever, print server, sccm distribution point, symantec endpoint protection distribution point
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AD, file server, mail sever, print server, sccm distribution point, symantec endpoint protection distribution point

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Do you even need HCI? How about 1 host for the VMs, and another server or device that can run backups and run VMs should the first just completely fail.
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Do you even need HCI? How about 1 host for the VMs, and another server or device that can run backups and run VMs should the first just completely fail.

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What's the cost effective option to run the 7VMs?
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What's the cost effective option to run the 7VMs?

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I would get a minimum of two (better to get three) hosts with shared storage. But that assumes you have networking in place and there are no issues with network or power and you have a place to put the new equipment. Along with a lot more questions.
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I would get a minimum of two (better to get three) hosts with shared storage. But that assumes you have networking in place and there are no issues with network or power and you have a place to put the new equipment. Along with a lot more questions.

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The most cost effective way to run 7 VMs is to have them all on a single goes host, and then have a suitable recovery strategy.
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The most cost effective way to run 7 VMs is to have them all on a single goes host, and then have a suitable recovery strategy.

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What's the popular and recommended Hyper-Converged solution (HCI) ? How about consider Microsoft hyerv , vmware hci solution?
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What's the popular and recommended Hyper-Converged solution (HCI) ? How about consider Microsoft hyerv , vmware hci solution?

What's the popular and recommended Hyper-Converged solution (HCI) ?

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.

Virtualization

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.

Hyper-V

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.