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boca
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Hi all,
I'm in the process of planning our future virtualization environment and after some preliminary testing with Proxmox I feel confident that this solution will provide us with what we need.
I have come to a point where I'd like to assemble a list of items that we'll need to purchase which will facilitate the following requirements:
- 100 users
- 5 VMs: 1 Active Directory, 2 SharePoint, 3 Terminal Server and MYOB, 4 Proxy and 5 File Sharing host.
- Workload: At the most, 20 concurrent connections to SharePoint, 3-4 concurrent connections to MYOB, random connections to File Sharing but low load.
Along these above listed items we’ll need room for around 10 basic Windows 7 VMs to be used for testing and client support. They will be used as a VPN platform to different network environments.
My goal here is to create an environment that will be flexible for future growth and would facilitate a decent level of High Availability. When I say HA, I mean, easy transfer of VM from broken host to another. Automatic failover would be great, but manual failover is sufficient for us at this point. I plan to achieve this by utilizing centralized storage and with SAN being out of our budget, NFS (NAS) storage will do the trick(?).
Now, my question with all of this is:
What do I need to look out for when planning such setups?
With above listed workload, what would be the minimum (safe) network connection between hosts/node to the centralized storage? I was thinking 10GB to facilitate for future nodes and expansion – this would be a separate from the public network.
Do you have any hardware (switches, NAS, Raid cards, etc) recommendations that would suit our needs and would happily work with Proxmox?
Any suggestions, recommendations or ideas are more than welcome! I’m a one man shop here and any outside input is greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
I'm in the process of planning our future virtualization environment and after some preliminary testing with Proxmox I feel confident that this solution will provide us with what we need.
I have come to a point where I'd like to assemble a list of items that we'll need to purchase which will facilitate the following requirements:
- 100 users
- 5 VMs: 1 Active Directory, 2 SharePoint, 3 Terminal Server and MYOB, 4 Proxy and 5 File Sharing host.
- Workload: At the most, 20 concurrent connections to SharePoint, 3-4 concurrent connections to MYOB, random connections to File Sharing but low load.
Along these above listed items we’ll need room for around 10 basic Windows 7 VMs to be used for testing and client support. They will be used as a VPN platform to different network environments.
My goal here is to create an environment that will be flexible for future growth and would facilitate a decent level of High Availability. When I say HA, I mean, easy transfer of VM from broken host to another. Automatic failover would be great, but manual failover is sufficient for us at this point. I plan to achieve this by utilizing centralized storage and with SAN being out of our budget, NFS (NAS) storage will do the trick(?).
Now, my question with all of this is:
What do I need to look out for when planning such setups?
With above listed workload, what would be the minimum (safe) network connection between hosts/node to the centralized storage? I was thinking 10GB to facilitate for future nodes and expansion – this would be a separate from the public network.
Do you have any hardware (switches, NAS, Raid cards, etc) recommendations that would suit our needs and would happily work with Proxmox?
Any suggestions, recommendations or ideas are more than welcome! I’m a one man shop here and any outside input is greatly appreciated!
Thank you!