scottatwittenberg
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I have a lot of questions to just get a basic understanding of what common, needed, etc to visualize a bunch of servers.
The case in point right now is a company with 100 users, 10 servers, in house Exchange, SQL, WebServer, Terminal server, a few business applications (running on SQL server), and file/print server.
Exchange is 2007 and uses about 360gb
Home / Share etc directories use about 400gb of space
There are 2 domain controllers on site, and 2 at remote offices, all on 2008r2 with domain functional level at 2008r2. (the 2 off-site, can just stay as they are)
So we had some Dell guys come in and tell us we should get an EqualLogic for $16000, 2 layer 2 switches, 2 r710 servers, and VMware vSphere Essentials for $4000 + and another $2000 for VMware 3 year support.
And AppAssure for backups
So I have looked at other options EMC VNXe, HP Par3, NetApp.. They all seem to come in at the same price point of $16-20k.
I am under the basic understanding of how this work:
2-3 servers run ESXi (which technically can boot from a 70mb flash drive)
This then can boot up a bunch of VMware images that reside of whatever SAN device is out there.
These virtual servers use iSCSI to connect to the SAN/NAS device to use that hard drive space as if it were a local drive.
How far off is this?
I hear or see of all of these "features" with the out of box $20k devices where you can Spin up 1tb of space in a minute or 1000 virtual desktops in 10 minutes, I don't know what we would actually need or want to use.
Question.
I thought VMware used to be free, and now it is something like $80 a computer. What is that $4000 VMware quote for?
What needs to be purchased to run ESXi and some VMware images on a server?
There is a Synology DS509+ with about 6tb of drives in it here.
Could we technically, use it to do the same type of setup? It wouldn't be fast, high availability, redundant, etc. But it would technically work, right?
I also created a server 2008r2 with exchange 2010 in VMware player on a computer. That image, vmdk could be put onto a NAS/SAN with iSCSI and booted up on a server running ESXi. right?
Thanks
The case in point right now is a company with 100 users, 10 servers, in house Exchange, SQL, WebServer, Terminal server, a few business applications (running on SQL server), and file/print server.
Exchange is 2007 and uses about 360gb
Home / Share etc directories use about 400gb of space
There are 2 domain controllers on site, and 2 at remote offices, all on 2008r2 with domain functional level at 2008r2. (the 2 off-site, can just stay as they are)
So we had some Dell guys come in and tell us we should get an EqualLogic for $16000, 2 layer 2 switches, 2 r710 servers, and VMware vSphere Essentials for $4000 + and another $2000 for VMware 3 year support.
And AppAssure for backups
So I have looked at other options EMC VNXe, HP Par3, NetApp.. They all seem to come in at the same price point of $16-20k.
I am under the basic understanding of how this work:
2-3 servers run ESXi (which technically can boot from a 70mb flash drive)
This then can boot up a bunch of VMware images that reside of whatever SAN device is out there.
These virtual servers use iSCSI to connect to the SAN/NAS device to use that hard drive space as if it were a local drive.
How far off is this?
I hear or see of all of these "features" with the out of box $20k devices where you can Spin up 1tb of space in a minute or 1000 virtual desktops in 10 minutes, I don't know what we would actually need or want to use.
Question.
I thought VMware used to be free, and now it is something like $80 a computer. What is that $4000 VMware quote for?
What needs to be purchased to run ESXi and some VMware images on a server?
There is a Synology DS509+ with about 6tb of drives in it here.
Could we technically, use it to do the same type of setup? It wouldn't be fast, high availability, redundant, etc. But it would technically work, right?
I also created a server 2008r2 with exchange 2010 in VMware player on a computer. That image, vmdk could be put onto a NAS/SAN with iSCSI and booted up on a server running ESXi. right?
Thanks