Server Virtualisation.

[Raumarik]

At my school we've got 4 Windows 2003 servers running, two of which are virtual servers. 400-450 clients.

Works well although the virtual ones don't handle apple shares well at all, especially for our ancient OS9 macs!

 

[BoomAM]

At my school we've got 4 Windows 2003 servers running, two of which are virtual servers. 400-450 clients.

Works well although the virtual ones don't handle apple shares well at all, especially for our ancient OS9 macs!

What spec is the host machine?

 

[Vtec9k]

A good live imaging software would be able to do that i suppose.
Or at worst, which im happy doing, i can take the 'servers' off line.

Is an 8 core/8gb/2tb system overkill for our needs do you think?
Gonna start writing up the plan this afternoon.

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Without seeing how heavily your existing ones are running can't really say. But tbh I'd be suprised if you even use a quarter of that most of the time.

 

[Burnsy2023]

How do you mean network availability? You mean network speed?

Avaliability is dependant on speed/bandwidth, network trafffic at the time between both the host machine and other nodes on the network. Basically, how long it'll take the data to be backed up over the network.

Burnsy

 

[BoomAM]

Avaliability is dependant on speed/bandwidth, network trafffic at the time between both the host machine and other nodes on the network. Basically, how long it'll take the data to be backed up over the network.

Burnsy

The backups would be done at 6pm, after the places closes, should be done by next morning as long as there are gigabit links between the server and the backup area. Which there is iirc.

Without seeing how heavily your existing ones are running can't really say. But tbh I'd be suprised if you even use a quarter of that most of the time.

Thats good then.
Room for expansion in the future.
Might put our VLE in a VM as well, if i can get frogtrade to give me the details to do so.