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Subject: [THIN] Re: VMWare Farm
From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk () gmail ! com>
Date: 2006-07-31 22:54:33
Message-ID: 44ce8a2b.5a0ab326.2680.ffffe944 () mx ! gmail ! com
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Hmm. Your still missing a few things in you HW assessments. For one, if
you visualize you need to think HA. So if 1 of the VM HW nodes die you now
have 10 servers that are dead. What? vMotion them to the other servers
that's probably maxed out? No redundancy on the SAN? HBA connections?
On you apples to apples comparison, would all 20 servers need a connection
to the SAN?
I don't remember fibre channel fabrics coming in two port flavors. and then
again, you would need two switches (redundancy again).
If you wish to consolidate servers and SAVE money, look at Virtuozzo.
Joe
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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf
Of Selinger, Stephen
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:42 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMWare Farm
Hmm.Good points but let's take a further look.at least what has worked for
me. This might not work in your environment but has worked great for me!!
Please note that I am not talking about Citrix on VMWARE in the following
message.
Well I have 20 Virtual machines running across three Dell 2850 servers in my
environment. They all are connected to the san and absolutely run without
any performance problem for the last two years. They haven't been rebooted
for 228 days. These are production virtual machines that are used everyday.
I have not yet had one single issue with the virtualization platform and no
vendor has not provided support. (Including MS_). Let's compare some quick
numbers.
If I would have purchased 20 Servers for this environment it would have
cost: (Please note Canadian dollars which are pretty much US dollars now :-)
)
Plan A - Physical Servers
20 - DELL 1850 - $ 4,000 each = $80,000 (with 3 year warranty)
1 - Rack for Servers - $ 5,000 (I was out of rack space
in my environment)\
1 - Blade for Switch - $ 5,000 (Network Guys are out of
ports)
Total Cost = $90,000.00
** Note I would have probably needed to purchase more AC and power but I
will not include these numbers in my calculations as I do not directly pay
for those things.
Plan B - ESX Servers
2 - DELL 2850/ 8 GB Ram/ - $ 15,000 each = $30,000
2 - HBA for SAN - $ 1,000 each = $ 2,000
2 - SAN Ports - $ 2,500 each = $ 5,000
2 - ESX License - $ 7,500 each = $15,000
2 - ESX Support for 3 years - $ 3,000 each = $ 9,000
1 - Disk for SAN - $ 10,000 300 GB = $10,000
Total over 3 years $71,000.00
Ok so you say wow you only saved $18,000 dollars big deal?
Well it is a big deal when you consider that all of the physical servers in
plan A are not connected to the SAN. They are stand alone and live and die
alone. If I wanted to compare apples to apples I would put HBAs into each
server and attached them into two SAN switch ports. This is not cheap. So
assuming that an HBA costs $1000 dollars and a SAN port costs $2500 dollars
which are the costs in my environment this would be the updated numbers.
Plan A- Physical Servers with SAN Disk
20 - Standard Dual Proc Server = $80,000.00
1 - Rack for Servers = $ 5,000.00 (I was out of rack space in my
environment)\
1 - Blade for Switch = $ 5,000.00 (Network Guys are out of ports)
20 - HBAs for servers = $20,000
20 - SAN Switch Ports = $50,000
1 - Disk for SAN - $ 10,000 300 GB = $10,000
Total Cost = $170,000
Plan B - ESX Servers
2 - DELL 2850/ 8 GB Ram/ - $ 15,000 each = $30,000
2 - HBA for SAN - $ 1,000 each = $ 2,000
2 - SAN Ports - $ 2,500 each = $ 5,000
2 - ESX License - $ 7,500 each = $15,000
2 - ESX Support for 3 years - $ 3,000 each = $ 9,000
1 - Disk for SAN - $ 10,000 300 GB = $10,000
Total over 3 years $71,000.00
Potential Cost Savings = $101,000
So you would see that if (and I say IF) the requirement was that all servers
were connected to the SAN then the ESX solution would be cheaper by $100,000
dollars. Yes you might not agree exactly with my numbers but I think that
this illustrates that there are tremendous cost savings made in an ESX
environment. We IT people have always been taught to over build servers just
to ensure that no one complains. I think that this is the only industry that
you can overbuild everything and not get fired! If you were building office
buildings for your company that were only 5% utilized and you wanted to
build a new building each time that you hired a few more staff you would be
fired so fast your head would spin.
There are also many soft benefits to virtualization with ESX I will quickly
name a few:
1) Vmotion
Absolutely cool technology. Imagine moving a live production server in the
middle of the day to another piece of hardware without any downtime. Let's
say you want to install more ram into the host server. Simply VMotion all
the guests over to another server, install the ram and then VMotion the
hosts back!
2) Snapshots.
Take a snapshot of you server before you install some MS patch of the week.
If the patch bombs your server simply fall back to the Snapshot and all is
well!!
3) VMWARE HA
If one of your ESX servers dies all of the VMs on that server will restart
on another ESX server. Yes the VMs will go down but within a few minutes
they will be back on another system.
4) Distributed Resource Scheduling
You basically setup a cluster of ESX servers that you're VMs live on. They
will be load balanced across this hardware to ensure enough resources are
spread across the farm.
I am not going to say that this won't work in every eviroment as everyone
and every company is different. I would just ask that you keep your options
open and at least look at this solution. Start small with a few test servers
and build from there.
You can download VMWARE ESX 3.0 evaulation from
http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/eval.html Remember the eval is free but
once you start you will never go back!
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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf
Of Greg Reese
Sent: July 31, 2006 1:50 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMWare Farm
I'm with Jeff on this one. VMWare has it's place but I wouldn't trust my
entire farm to it. Web interface, license server, test environments etc.
Small things that don't need lots of attention or power.
5 vmware servers and licensing for ESX will also cost a small fortune. Not
to mention the SAN space etc. If you spent 3k per server on 15 Hp DL360
servers, you would be looking at 45k for the farm. 5 vmware servers, plus
support, plus vmware esx, HBA's, SAN space etc will be a lot more than 45k
and not perform as well. It will perform OK, but once you get loaded up
with lots of users, the physicals will outperform.
I like the fact that running on physical boxes is a known commodity. When
you are running things on VMware and there is a problem, it gets brought up.
The vendors point fingers at it, management wonders about it. Then you have
to move it to a physical box to prove it is or is not a vmware issue etc.
it just becomes a hassle. A hassle you paid more money to have.
Greg
On 8/1/06, Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@gmail.com> wrote:
This all depends on what your DR needs are but Zone Preference and Failover
will allow for automatic redirecting of clients to the DR site without any
need for you to get involved.
As for the 15 VM's, that depends on many factors. What hardware are you
moving from and moving too? How many users? How much load were on your old
servers? Have you looked at 64-bit at all? How did you determine that 5
servers running VMWare would meet your needs? Have you done any real
testing to see if this solution would work?
Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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On 7/31/06, Eldon <u2htdaab@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks to all providing very good info so far. Now, which features
specifically in PS 4 would resolve my DR needs (not totally up to speed with
PS 4). Also, isn't running 15 VMs running on only 5 servers improving my
farm based upon consolidation?
On 7/31/06, Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@gmail.com > wrote:
mm, i would argue that you probably have space to consolidate anyway but
moving to 64-bit OS and hardware would allow you to consolidate very easily
and the features that are in PS4 would allow for exactly what your looking
for from a DR perspective. Just remember that you will not get the same
performance out of a VM that you would out of pure hardware. Now there are
obvious considerations here like you may be using really old hardware, etc
but do not be surprised that you could very easily end up running more than
15 VM's to handle the same amount of users in a virtualized environment.
As well, don't agree to anything until you can actually test all of thi
sout. Anyone can promise the world, it's up to you to make sure that it's
actually the world you want. I've seen to many people fall into this trap
and only listen to what they are being told, then sign the agreements, then
live to regret because they didn't do due diligence to make sure that the
solution would actually work.
Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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On 7/31/06, Eldon <u2htdaab@gmail.com> wrote:
Being the OP, the lure of VMware to me is twofold: 1 - to consolidate
hardware in my current deployment of HP G1 hardware (15) to support 250
concurrent connections to a published dekstop and other siloed apps; and 2 -
to allow failover to our DR site by using our current EMC SAN located in our
main site and a future EMC SAN (Centerra) at our DR location. Portability
of moving VMs between SANs in a DR scenario is very appealing.
I am in the process of waiting on a quote from a Solutions Architect, but
the way it was explained to me is that I would be looking at consolidation
of 3 current servers into 1 (3 VMs per server).
On 7/31/06, Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@gmail.com > wrote:
Hence my statement of lightly used servers. Most companies care about
getting more users on a system vs less. Now granted the OP didn't say how
many users, how many servers but in the end if you try to take an entire
farm and port it to VM's, you will typically end up using more VM's than
phsyical boxes. VM's simply cannot get the same amount of users on a system
as physical hardware can at this point in time. If you aren't utilizing
your servers to their full potential or even close to their potential, then
yes you could move to VM's and not notice much of difference. But let's be
realistic for a moment, most people move to VM's to consolidate servers. As
well, many many companies that do this with Presentation Server aren't using
their boxes to nearly their potential anyways so moving to VM's for that
reason is simply ridiculous. I would be willing to bet that many PS
implementations have never taken the time to benchmark or stress test their
servers to see how many users they can get on a system. They have no idea
what their sytems can handle and therefore over buy on the systems required.
Now overbuying isn't necessarily a bad thing (for redundancy) but I've been
into many many companies that do it because they simply don't know what
their systems can handle.
whew, gotta get off that soapbox. Sorry everyone
Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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On 7/31/06, Selinger, Stephen <SSelinger@chr.ab.ca
<mailto:SSelinger@chr.ab.ca> > wrote:
Jeff,
Respectively I hope that you are only taking about highly utilized
production Citrix servers and not other servers as VMs. There are many
companies including where I work that have production VMs of various sorts
and flavours. ESX is absolutely a production ready product that is capable
of running production VMs. Yes there will be servers that have too high of
utilization to be running on ESX but there are tons of over powered
underutilized servers out there.
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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto: <mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org>
thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Pitsch
Sent: July 31, 2006 11:29 AM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMWare Farm
I believe the general concesus is is that for production, VM's are not the
way. Lightly used servers are fine, but for an entire farm the performance
is ismply not there yet.
Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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On 7/31/06, Eldon < u2htdaab@gmail.com <mailto:u2htdaab@gmail.com> > wrote:
Currently running FR3 on 2000 SP4, and am beginning to evaluate and look at
building a separate Windows 2003 CPS 4.0 Farm on the VMWare ESX platform.
Just wanted to get an idea if anyone on the list has something similar in
production today, what hardware you deployed to support published apps on
ESX and VMotion, and how you designed your farm (including Data Collector
and Database). Also looking for Best Practices and Things to Avoid!
Thanks!!
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hmm… Your still missing a few things
in you HW assessments. For one, if you visualize you need to think
HA. So if 1 of the VM HW nodes die you now have 10 servers that are dead.
What? vMotion them to the other servers that’s probably maxed out? \
No redundancy on the SAN? HBA connections?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>On you apples to apples comparison, would
all 20 servers need a connection to the SAN?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I don’t remember fibre channel
fabrics coming in two port flavors… and then again, you would need two switches
(redundancy again).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you wish to consolidate servers and
SAVE money, look at Virtuozzo.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] <b><span
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, July 31, 2006 1:42
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> thin@freelists.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [THIN] Re: VMWare \
Farm</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hmm…Good points but
let’s take a further look…at least what has worked for me. This
might not work in your environment but has worked great for me!!</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please note that I am not
talking about Citrix on VMWARE in the following message.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Well I have 20 Virtual
machines running across three Dell 2850 servers in my environment. They all are
connected to the san and absolutely run without any performance problem for the
last two years. They haven’t been rebooted for 228 days. These are
production virtual machines that are used everyday. I have not yet had one
single issue with the virtualization platform and no vendor has not provided
support. (Including MS_). Let’s compare some quick numbers.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If I would have purchased
20 Servers for this environment it would have cost: (Please note Canadian
dollars which are pretty much US dollars now </span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Wingdings><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> )</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Plan A -
Physical Servers</span></font></u></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'><span
style='text-decoration:none'> </span></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>20 – DELL 1850
- $ 4,000
each = $80,000 (with 3 year warranty)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>1 - Rack for
Servers
- $ 5,000 (I was out of rack space in my environment)\</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>1 - Blade for
Switch
- $ 5,000 (Network Guys are out of ports)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Total Cost = \
$90,000.00</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>** Note I would have
probably needed to purchase more AC and power but I will not include these
numbers in my calculations as I do not directly pay for those \
things.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Plan B -
ESX Servers</span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2 – DELL 2850/ 8 GB
Ram/ - $ 15,000 each = \
$30,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2 – HBA for
SAN
- $ 1,000 each = $ 2,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2 – SAN
Ports
- $ 2,500 each = $ 5,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2 – ESX License
- $ 7,500 each = $15,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2 – ESX Support for
3 years - $ 3,000 each =
$ 9,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>1 – Disk for
SAN
- $ 10,000 300 GB = $10,000 </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Total over 3 years
$71,000.00</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ok so you say wow you
only saved $18,000 dollars big deal? </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Well it is a big deal
when you consider that all of the physical servers in plan A are not connected
to the SAN. They are stand alone and live and die alone. If I wanted to compare
apples to apples I would put HBAs into each server and attached them into two
SAN switch ports. This is not cheap. So assuming that an HBA costs $1000
dollars and a SAN port costs $2500 dollars which are the costs in my
environment this would be the updated numbers.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Plan A-
Physical Servers with SAN Disk</span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>20 – Standard Dual
Proc Server = $80,000.00</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>1 - Rack for
Servers = $ 5,000.00 (I was out of rack space in my environment)\</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>1 - Blade for
Switch = $ 5,000.00 (Network Guys are out of ports)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>20 – HBAs for
servers = $20,000 </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>20 – SAN Switch
Ports = $50,000 </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>1 – Disk for
SAN - $ 10,000 300 GB = $10,000 </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Total Cost = \
$170,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Plan B -
ESX Servers</span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2 – DELL 2850/ 8 GB
Ram/ - $ 15,000 each = \
$30,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2 – HBA for
SAN
- $ 1,000 each = $ 2,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2 – SAN
Ports
- $ 2,500 each = $ 5,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2 – ESX License
- $ 7,500 each = $15,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2 – ESX Support for
3 years - $ 3,000 each =
$ 9,000</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>1 – Disk for
SAN
- $ 10,000 300 GB = $10,000 </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Total over 3 years
$71,000.00</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Potential Cost Savings =
$101,000 </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>So you would see that if
(and I say IF) the requirement was that all servers were connected to the SAN
then the ESX solution would be cheaper by $100,000 dollars. Yes you might not
agree exactly with my numbers but I think that this illustrates that there are
tremendous cost savings made in an ESX environment. We IT people have always
been taught to over build servers just to ensure that no one complains. I think
that this is the only industry that you can overbuild everything and not get
fired! If you were building office buildings for your company that were only 5%
utilized and you wanted to build a new building each time that you hired a few
more staff you would be fired so fast your head would spin. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>There are also many soft
benefits to virtualization with ESX I will quickly name a few:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>1)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt \
"Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><font size=2 \
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA \
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Vmotion</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Absolutely cool
technology. Imagine moving a live production server in the middle of the day to
another piece of hardware without any downtime. Let’s say you want to
install more ram into the host server. Simply VMotion all the guests over to
another server, install the ram and then VMotion the hosts back!</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>2)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt \
"Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><font size=2 \
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA \
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Snapshots.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Take a snapshot of you
server before you install some MS patch of the week. If the patch bombs your
server simply fall back to the Snapshot and all is well!!</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>3)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt \
"Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><font size=2 \
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA \
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>VMWARE HA</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If one of your ESX
servers dies all of the VMs on that server will restart on another ESX server.
Yes the VMs will go down but within a few minutes they will be back on another
system. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>4)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt \
"Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></font><font size=2 \
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA \
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Distributed Resource \
Scheduling</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You basically setup a
cluster of ESX servers that you’re VMs live on. They will be load
balanced across this hardware to ensure enough resources are spread across the
farm.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am not going to say
that this won’t work in every eviroment as everyone and every company is
different. I would just ask that you keep your options open and at least look
at this solution. Start small with a few test servers and build from there. \
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You can download VMWARE
ESX 3.0 evaulation from <a \
href="http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/eval.html">http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/eval.html</a>
Remember the eval is free but once you start you will never go \
back!</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Greg Reese<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> July 31, 2006 1:50 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> thin@freelists.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [THIN] Re: VMWare \
Farm</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>I'm with Jeff
on this one. VMWare has it's place but I wouldn't trust my entire farm to
it. Web interface, license server, test environments etc. Small
things that don't need lots of attention or power.<br>
<br>
5 vmware servers and licensing for ESX will also cost a small fortune.
Not to mention the SAN space etc. If you spent 3k per server on 15 Hp
DL360 servers, you would be looking at 45k for the farm. 5 vmware
servers, plus support, plus vmware esx, HBA's, SAN space etc will be a lot more
than 45k and not perform as well. It will perform OK, but once you get
loaded up with lots of users, the physicals will outperform. <br>
<br>
I like the fact that running on physical boxes is a known commodity. When
you are running things on VMware and there is a problem, it gets brought up.
The vendors point fingers at it, management wonders about it. Then you
have to move it to a physical box to prove it is or is not a vmware issue
etc. it just becomes a hassle. A hassle you paid more money to
have. <br>
<br>
Greg</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 8/1/06, <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Jeff Pitsch</span></b> <<a \
href="mailto:jepitsch@gmail.com">jepitsch@gmail.com</a>> \
wrote:</span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt'>This all depends on what your DR needs are but Zone
Preference and Failover will allow for automatic redirecting of clients to the
DR site without any need for you to get involved. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt'>As for the 15 VM's, that depends on many
factors. What hardware are you moving from and moving too? How many
users? How much load were on your old servers? Have you looked at
64-bit at all? How did you determine that 5 servers running VMWare would
meet your needs? Have you done any real testing to see if this solution
would work? </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jeff
Pitsch<br>
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA \
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Forums not enough?<br>
Get support from the experts at your business<br>
<a href="http://jeffpitschconsulting.com/" \
target="_blank">http://jeffpitschconsulting.com</a> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
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</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 7/31/06, <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Eldon</span></b> <<a href="mailto:u2htdaab@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">u2htdaab@gmail.com</a>>
wrote: </span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks to all providing very good info so far.
Now, which features specifically in PS 4 would resolve my DR needs (not totally
up to speed with PS 4). Also, isn't running 15 VMs running on only 5
servers improving my farm based upon consolidation? <br>
<br>
</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 7/31/06, <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Jeff Pitsch</span></b> <<a href="mailto:jepitsch@gmail.com"
target="_blank">jepitsch@gmail.com</a> > wrote:</span></font></span><span
lang=EN-CA> </span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt'>mm, i would argue that you probably have space to
consolidate anyway but moving to 64-bit OS and hardware would allow you to
consolidate very easily and the features that are in PS4 would allow for
exactly what your looking for from a DR perspective. Just remember that
you will not get the same performance out of a VM that you would out of
pure hardware. Now there are obvious considerations here like you may be
using really old hardware, etc but do not be surprised that you could very
easily end up running more than 15 VM's to handle the same amount of users in a
virtualized environment. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt'>As well, don't agree to anything until you can
actually test all of thi sout. Anyone can promise the world, it's up to
you to make sure that it's actually the world you want. I've seen to many
people fall into this trap and only listen to what they are being told, then
sign the agreements, then live to regret because they didn't do due diligence
to make sure that the solution would actually work. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jeff
Pitsch<br>
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA \
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Forums not enough?<br>
Get support from the experts at your business<br>
<a href="http://jeffpitschconsulting.com/" \
target="_blank">http://jeffpitschconsulting.com</a> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
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lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 7/31/06, <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Eldon</span></b> <<a href="mailto:u2htdaab@gmail.com" \
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Being the OP, the lure of VMware to me is
twofold: 1 - to consolidate hardware in my current deployment of HP G1
hardware (15) to support 250 concurrent connections to a published dekstop and
other siloed apps; and 2 - to allow failover to our DR site by using our
current EMC SAN located in our main site and a future EMC SAN (Centerra) at our
DR location. Portability of moving VMs between SANs in a DR scenario is
very appealing. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am in the process of waiting on a quote from a
Solutions Architect, but the way it was explained to me is that I would be
looking at consolidation of 3 current servers into 1 (3 VMs per \
server).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 7/31/06, <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Jeff Pitsch</span></b> <<a href="mailto:jepitsch@gmail.com"
target="_blank">jepitsch@gmail.com</a> > wrote:</span></font></span><span
lang=EN-CA> </span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hence my statement of lightly used servers. Most
companies care about getting more users on a system vs less. Now granted
the OP didn't say how many users, how many servers but in the end if you try to
take an entire farm and port it to VM's, you will typically end up using more
VM's than phsyical boxes. VM's simply cannot get the same amount of users
on a system as physical hardware can at this point in time. If you aren't
utilizing your servers to their full potential or even close to their
potential, then yes you could move to VM's and not notice much of
difference. But let's be realistic for a moment, most people move to VM's
to consolidate servers. As well, many many companies that do this with
Presentation Server aren't using their boxes to nearly their potential anyways
so moving to VM's for that reason is simply ridiculous. I would be
willing to bet that many PS implementations have never taken the time to
benchmark or stress test their servers to see how many users they can get on a
system. They have no idea what their sytems can handle and therefore over
buy on the systems required. Now overbuying isn't necessarily a bad thing
(for redundancy) but I've been into many many companies that do it because they
simply don't know what their systems can handle. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>whew, gotta get off that soapbox. Sorry everyone
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jeff
Pitsch<br>
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA \
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Forums not enough?<br>
Get support from the experts at your business<br>
<a href="http://jeffpitschconsulting.com/" \
target="_blank">http://jeffpitschconsulting.com</a> </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 7/31/06, <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Selinger, Stephen</span></b> <<a href="mailto:SSelinger@chr.ab.ca"
target="_blank">SSelinger@chr.ab.ca </a>> wrote:</span></font></span><span
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Jeff,</span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Respectively I hope that you are only taking
about highly utilized production Citrix servers and not other servers as VMs.
There are many companies including where I work that have production VMs of
various sorts and flavours. ESX is absolutely a production ready product that
is capable of running production VMs. Yes there will be servers that have too
high of utilization to be running on ESX but there are tons of over powered
underutilized servers out there. </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <a
href="mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org" target="_blank">thin-bounce@freelists.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org" target="_blank">
thin-bounce@freelists.org</a>] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of \
</span></b>Jeff Pitsch<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> July 31, 2006 11:29 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To: </span></b><a
href="mailto:thin@freelists.org" target="_blank">thin@freelists.org</a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [THIN] Re: VMWare Farm \
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>I
believe the general concesus is is that for production, VM's are not the
way. Lightly used servers are fine, but for an entire farm the
performance is ismply not there yet. </span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jeff
Pitsch<br>
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA \
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Forums not enough?<br>
Get support from the experts at your business<br>
<a href="http://jeffpitschconsulting.com/" \
target="_blank">http://jeffpitschconsulting.com</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>On
7/31/06, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Eldon</span></b> <<a
href="mailto:u2htdaab@gmail.com" target="_blank"> u2htdaab@gmail.com</a>>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Currently running FR3 on 2000 SP4, and am beginning to \
evaluate and look at building a separate Windows 2003 CPS 4.0 Farm on the VMWare ESX \
platform. Just wanted to get an idea if anyone on the list has something \
similar in production today, what hardware you deployed to support published apps on \
ESX and VMotion, and how you designed your farm (including Data Collector and \
Database). Also looking for Best Practices and Things to Avoid! \
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