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Gawd
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I had a couple of questions that I hope you guys could help answer.
Basically six locations witl have two Dell PE-R300 servers connnected to a small 2TB SAN. I am looking to go with VMware since I have a few ESXi servers running in production around here already with great success. I know that ESXi doesn't support HA capablilites and that is something we want wtih this new setup and I have a quesiton about licensing.
If we do go with the two Dell PE-R300 connected to the 2TB SAN will I have to buy one or two licenses of VMware 4 Std? The second server is there only for HA capabilites at this time. Also will I technically have to buy two copies of each OS that runs inside a VM for HA porposes? I haven't gotten to play around with HA yet so I'm not sure how it handles everything yet but I will setup a test lab shortly.
These are a couple of questions I don't know yet and I knew you guys that have already built out this type of setup will know.
I'm open to suggestions too since this is still in the planning stage. Maybe Hyper-V would work better since I'm going with Server 2008 on the VMs anyway?
Basically six locations witl have two Dell PE-R300 servers connnected to a small 2TB SAN. I am looking to go with VMware since I have a few ESXi servers running in production around here already with great success. I know that ESXi doesn't support HA capablilites and that is something we want wtih this new setup and I have a quesiton about licensing.
If we do go with the two Dell PE-R300 connected to the 2TB SAN will I have to buy one or two licenses of VMware 4 Std? The second server is there only for HA capabilites at this time. Also will I technically have to buy two copies of each OS that runs inside a VM for HA porposes? I haven't gotten to play around with HA yet so I'm not sure how it handles everything yet but I will setup a test lab shortly.
These are a couple of questions I don't know yet and I knew you guys that have already built out this type of setup will know.
I'm open to suggestions too since this is still in the planning stage. Maybe Hyper-V would work better since I'm going with Server 2008 on the VMs anyway?