VMWare Question

paradigm said:
Be aware that this is PHYSICAL processor, and not logical core.
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Yep, I gathered that. Didn't realize this stuff was so expensive, I've never had to buy it before. :o

The acceleration kits seem reasonable but don't have vMotion or storageVmotion. :(

Compared to Citrix XenServer it is very expensive (yes I know XenSever is an inferior product).
 
paradigm said:
For us, half the reason for virtualizing was the redundancy and resource management that vMotion offered. I can wholly understand the reason for wanting an Enterprise license, and I certainly wouldn't hold back.
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Exactly, I'd rather try and have the enterprise approved as later down the line it could bite me.

I've managed to obtain a few distribution places, will have to give them a ring and see what they can do.

I already have two DL350's, so I may bump them up (ram, cpu, NICS) buy another DL350 with the VMWare Enterprise Acceleration Kit. I'm pretty sure the ML350 should be OK, or would a ML370 be better suited?
 
kefkef said:
4 x Dell R610 with dual processor and 32gb memory with fibre cards etc and VM enterprise plus acceleration kit for 8 processors with 3yr platinum support, MS Datacentre Server 2008 R2 x64 licence for each host box (allows you to put as many copies of Server 2008 (or downgrade to earlier versions) on each host box as you want, works out better than buying one licence per virtual server) £56k + VAT.
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That may work out for you, I only have 7 servers and certainly don't have a $100k budget. :p
 
Baz said:
We only had the first year support, but that will/has to be ongoing, part of the agreement of buying VMWare if I remember.
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I'm proposing a three year spend, so everything will be under 3 year support including hardware and SAN.

Unless my budget gets blown out of the water. :eek:
 
I will take a look at DataCentre. Currently I have 3 x 2003 Ent 64 Retail and thus can P2V them.

There are plans for an e-commerce site and DB server so it could well work out.
 
I know the ML350 G6 has 64bit CPU as its running Windows 64bit, also IIRC all G6 ML's are 64 bit.

It has dawned on me today that I may need identical servers for VMWare to avoid any funny activation? Will have to check that out with VMWare.
 
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