Hello,
We have 15 VM's currently running in our small office. We currently run 3 Host Servers of various sizes to handle our Virtual Machines. All three run VMware Server 2.0. Our office has been humming along very nicely for the past 3 years, but I'd like to make some big changes to our Server environment.
Our budget is allowing us to buy two new Servers and we're looking at two Dell 710's with 32GB of Ram and 3 raid arrays (Raid 1, Raid 10, Raid 1). The reason we have 3 raid arrays is to keep our SQL Server database files on different spindles.
I'm hoping this forum can clear up a few things for us.
Any recommendations/comments you wish to provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
We have 15 VM's currently running in our small office. We currently run 3 Host Servers of various sizes to handle our Virtual Machines. All three run VMware Server 2.0. Our office has been humming along very nicely for the past 3 years, but I'd like to make some big changes to our Server environment.
Our budget is allowing us to buy two new Servers and we're looking at two Dell 710's with 32GB of Ram and 3 raid arrays (Raid 1, Raid 10, Raid 1). The reason we have 3 raid arrays is to keep our SQL Server database files on different spindles.
I'm hoping this forum can clear up a few things for us.
- I see there is an .iso image for Proxmox. Do I need to have an O/S already on my Servers before installing this image? If an image is required, would Ubuntu Server LTS edition work well?
- If we wanted to pay for Support to help us set our system up, what would you recommend us buy?
- For High Availability (auto migrate), do we need to have a SAN in place or can we have auto-migrate between the drives on both servers. Another option we are considering is to buy a QNAP device and use NFS to run our VM's but the problem with a NAS would be another single point of failure.
- Would you recommend we convert our existing VMware VM's or should we build Net New and install the software we need.
Any recommendations/comments you wish to provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.