HP Proliant DL580 G5 w/VmWare

No its not, HA and DRS are separately licensed products. VC only comes with VI3 enterprise edition not the other versions as its a separately licensed product. You get a license allowing management of ESX thru VC with all versions.

HA monitors server failure and automatically restarts boxes if you have it configured to do so. DRS monitors the general resource load and will shuffle the boxes to equalise the resource usage across the nodes in a cluster.

You might want to re-read what it says about using DRS in conjunction with HA.
 
For the two servers would we need to purchase two copies of VI3, im looking at the Enterprise Version which includes, HA/DRS/VMotion or does it work out cheaper to get either the starter/standard package and license these options separately?

Regards

There is a package on the Vmware site stating the following for arround 4.5k which looks ideal, if i could throw a DRS license in with this it would be ideal.



VMware Infrastructure Standard High Availability Acceleration Kit

Build Your Highly Available, Virtual Foundation for Less -- 2 Licenses of VI3 Standard, 1 License of VirtualCenter Foundation and Support for up to 20% Off!

VMware Infrastructure Standard High Availability (HA) Acceleration Kit includes:

* 2 Licenses of VMware Infrastructure Standard
o ESX Server 3
o VirtualCenter Agent
o Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
o Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (vSMP)
o VMware Update Manager
o VMware Consolidated Backup
o VMware High Availability (HA)
* 1 License of VMware VirtualCenter Foundation
* Support and Subscription (SnS)




VMware Infrastructure Standard High Availability Acceleration Kit for 4 processors (2-VI3 Standard, 1-VirtualCenter Foundation) + Gold (12x5) 1 Year Support (details) - £4,910.96

VMware VMotion with Storage VMotion + Gold (12x5) 1 Year Support (details) - £2,724.25

VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler with Distributed Power Management for 2 processors + Gold (12x5) 1 Year Support (details) x 2 - £1,634.28
 
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I still think you should go and have a quick look at Virtual Iron ;)

But what you've got there looks ok, might be worth checking on the cost of enterprise as I don't think its going to work out much more than that price anyway thou.
 
J1nxy said:
I still think you should go and have a quick look at Virtual Iron ;)

But what you've got there looks ok, might be worth checking on the cost of enterprise as I don't think its going to work out much more than that price anyway thou.
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Indeed two copies of Enterprise come in nearly 1K cheaper. I can understand your reasoning behind Virtual Iron but i feel much more comfortable with VmWare :)
 
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