Addressing virtualization's achilles heel

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Just built a VMWare farm

Have the servers using their hard drives directly from a SAN infrastructure. Then we have IBM servers which have 10 NICs each. ( two 4 port gig and 2 onboard ).

As for sharing.. yes, you may run out of I/O on a server, but if you balance them properly, that shouldnt be an issue. The issues come to the front when you start trying to save money beyond a safe limit.

With the vmware software and ibm hardware/support, we spent 14 grand on each server. dual quad core 2.5 with 32gb ram. I was told we could get up to around 30 servers on each one. Which makes the cost of each server 500+ licensing. Even i can only get 15 on each server.. the cost is still 1000 bucks which is around 2-3000 cheaper than a stand alone server.

I dont count the SAN cause i would have bought that anyway. Though if i were to factor it in, it would be 1000 at 30 servers per physical server or 2000 for 15 servers

Posted by: Been_Done_Before   Posted on: 11/17/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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