Comments on: Looking forward http://virtualize.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/looking-forward/ Experiences in Virtualization Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:45:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: devnull42 http://virtualize.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/looking-forward/#comment-8 devnull42 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:32:37 +0000 https://virtualize.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/looking-forward/#comment-8 We are about as far along with our virtualization project as you are. I just found your site today and it's interesting to see someone going through a similar (although larger) project. We are only going to be running about 25 VM's or so. Our problem is that the most demanding VM's are going to be new servers. We are upgrading the majority of the legacy systems here to a Windows 2003 Infrastructure and only have a vague idea of the processor and I/O requirements. Our hardware is on order and should be in torwards the end of the month. We decided to go with IBM x3650's (Dual 3.0ghz Intel 5160 CPU's and 16GB of Ram.) The hardest point to decide on was the SAN. We talked to some other institutions and decided to go with the Equalogic iSCSI SAN. Price was definatly influencing our decision, but we wouldn't have gone that route if we didn't feel good about the performance. Fibre Channel would be nice, but was way out of the budget. I look forward to reading how your experience continues with the big migration. We are about as far along with our virtualization project as you are. I just found your site today and it’s interesting to see someone going through a similar (although larger) project. We are only going to be running about 25 VM’s or so.

Our problem is that the most demanding VM’s are going to be new servers. We are upgrading the majority of the legacy systems here to a Windows 2003 Infrastructure and only have a vague idea of the processor and I/O requirements.

Our hardware is on order and should be in torwards the end of the month. We decided to go with IBM x3650’s (Dual 3.0ghz Intel 5160 CPU’s and 16GB of Ram.)

The hardest point to decide on was the SAN. We talked to some other institutions and decided to go with the Equalogic iSCSI SAN. Price was definatly influencing our decision, but we wouldn’t have gone that route if we didn’t feel good about the performance. Fibre Channel would be nice, but was way out of the budget.

I look forward to reading how your experience continues with the big migration.

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