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virtual setup

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 11/20/2008
From: deeps
Message:

Hi!

The company i'm working is having 5 different sister companies, one of them
is connected thru fiber as its in seperate building. i want to create DC and
File server for each of the companies which is having near about 150 users
total.

I've IBM x series server (xeon2.4ghz, 2gb ram, 4 x 146gb sas hdd).

My plan to do so is to install 2k3 on host server, and then using MS virtual
server software install guest os for each company(total 5) and then configure
them for DC and file server.

So expecting your opinion/suggestions on the same.

Thanks in advance,

Deepak M.

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Re: virtual setup

Sent: 11/21/2008
From: deeps
Message:

Thanks bill for replying...

I've quad core xeon processor, but sure i'm going to add up more ram arround
6gb.

what i'm thinking is to add processor later, and for redundancy i'm planning
to have server cluster.

more tips/suggestions are most welcome.

Re: virtual setup

Sent: 11/21/2008
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:56:01 -0800, deeps
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

If the PC can run 64 bit operating systems then use Win2003 X64 or
Win2008 on the server.
You will need to install the 64 bit version of VirtualServer of course
(this will not run 64 bit guests but works on X64 host operating
systems).

With this you can handle a lot more RAM.
So get yourself enough RAM to give each guest 2-3 Gb and keep a lot
for the host as well.

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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>I've IBM x series server (xeon2.4ghz, 2gb ram, 4 x 146gb sas hdd).
>
>My plan to do so is to install 2k3 on host server...

Re: virtual setup

Sent: 11/21/2008
From: "Bill Grant" <not.available@online>
Message:

"deeps" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

I would not even think about it with only 2G RAM. It is theoretically
possible to run five vms on such a machine (by limiting the guests to to
about 256M each) but the performance would be very poor.

I would want at least 512M for each guest (preferably more), so you
are looking at at least 4G on the host (again preferably more). The more
memory you have the better. I would also want to see more processor power.
Six machines (the host and five DC/file servers) one one xeon processor will
be ssslllooowww!!

My test server has 4G of memory and a quad-core xeon and I would not try
to run a load like that on it, using Virtual Server or Hyper-V.

The fact that one site is on a fibre link doesn't really come into the
picture.

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> Hi!
>
> The company i'm working is having 5 different sister companies, one of
> them
> is connected thru fiber as its in seperate building. i want to create DC
> and
> File server for each of the companies which is having near about 150 users
> total.
>
> I've IBM x series server (xeon2.4ghz, 2gb ram, 4 x 146gb sas hdd).
>
> My plan to do so is to install 2k3 on host server, and then using MS
> virtual
> server software install guest os for each company(total 5) and then
> configure
> them for DC and file server.
>
> So expecting your opinion/suggestions on the same.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Deepak M.

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