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Author:  forquare1 [ Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
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Sounds encouraging. Virtualisation was playing a big part in the way the lab was run back in Sun, we had started to get rid of many physical boxes and started replacing them with various virtualisation technologies. In the space of 4U we had the equivalent of 30 machines for engineers to use, we were also working on a system that could give an engineer a VM in seconds using a mixture of VirtualBox on X64 and Solaris Zones on SPARC.
When I can upgrade my server a little more, it will be virtualising more so I can save other computers for other things.
Author:  big_D [ Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:55 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
It depends on what you use the servers for. We could (and long term, I want to) virtualise a couple of the servers, but we have a couple of Windows terminal servers, which you can't really virtualise so easily - they need the RAM and processing power, so reducing server count isn't as practical.
Author:  AlunD [ Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
On my last project we visualised nearly all our servers, and on the project I started today the same is true.

Its great for resilience and capacity flexibility. :D
Author:  veato [ Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
I'm writing this using a VMware VDI (Wyse terminal running Citrix Xendesktop)!
Author:  james016 [ Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
We have virtualised a couple of our servers. It was so simple to do. Hopefully will be doing more soon.
Author:  shawpower [ Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
We virtualised about 20 servers, including a clustered Exchange setup, citrix 4.5 farm, Active Directory servers, and a range of others ones. Very happy so far.
Author:  james016 [ Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
Is it easy to virtualise Exchange? It was something we talked about at the office.
Author:  saspro [ Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:52 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
james016 wrote:
Is it easy to virtualise Exchange? It was something we talked about at the office.


Very easy.
Although I'm still a fan of giving exchange, sql & terminal services their own boxes with fast disks.
Author:  koli [ Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
All our desktops are virtualised running on Citrix. We call them "my pretended pc in USA" :lol:
Author:  AlunD [ Thu Jul 30, 2009 6:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
saspro wrote:
james016 wrote:
Is it easy to virtualise Exchange? It was something we talked about at the office.


Very easy.
Although I'm still a fan of giving exchange, sql & terminal services their own boxes with fast disks.


I've left my main SQL cluster as hardware servers.
Author:  gavomatic57 [ Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:42 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
I'm sure Citrix is great from an admin perspective, but for the users it is dreadful. The PC's with local versions of Office are prized possessions around here.
Author:  AlunD [ Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:46 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
gavomatic57 wrote:
I'm sure Citrix is great from an admin perspective, but for the users it is dreadful. The PC's with local versions of Office are prized possessions around here.


Yeah been there it is not good.
Author:  koli [ Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
AlunD wrote:
gavomatic57 wrote:
I'm sure Citrix is great from an admin perspective, but for the users it is dreadful. The PC's with local versions of Office are prized possessions around here.


Yeah been there it is not good.


Only thing I don't like about Citrix is that I don't have enough RAM allocated on the server. I complained on our tech. support line but they keep telling me they can't give one user more ram. Apparently all users on the server share all the ram and they can't give me more. Is that correct or they are just making excuses?

Though I like the processing power it gives me, latencies are good too...
Author:  AlunD [ Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Is server virtualisation delivering for you yet?
koli wrote:
Apparently all users on the server share all the ram and they can't give me more. Is that correct or they are just making excuses?

Though I like the processing power it gives me, latencies are good too...


I must admit I thought it was type of user / role that RAM was controlled at in Citrix, could be wrong though. :?
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