Tell Me About vSphere

[swain90]

Hi All,

As part of a large company IT migration I've found myself possibly needing some new hardware which would maintained by myself and a few others from a different department. This kit will be mainly used for Lab purposes and probably 1 or two VMs to be used for business purposes.

I'm in the middle of weighing up the options in terms of what virtualisation software to go for.

I'm currently swayed to go for VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 as we don't need the host to do anything other than virtualise and plus it's free!

I've had a read online and it sounds like there's some minor limitations such as 8 vCPUs per VM which is more than enough for our needs. However if there's some other major features I'd be missing it'd be useful to know.

It'd be interesting to know what sort of redundancy people have used in the past for similar setups. I was initially looking at RAID1 for the host hardware.

Any info would be appreciated!

Cheers,

Swain90

 

[swain90]

Thanks for the comments, I'm going to have a play today with setting up some VMs and looking at what backup options to see if they provide what we need.

@Nikumba we're currently using Hyper-V for some other VMs and while it does its job, I'm not the biggest fan.