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Hi,
I am new to VMware and need a little guidance, hope that I will find an answer.
I need a best practice guide to follow. Done a lot of research but seem to find only old posts related to vmware 4. I’m about to use Vmware 5
I have the following new hardware:
HP DL 360 G7, 2 x XEON E5606 @ 2.13 quad core (8 cores in total), 30GB RAM, 5 X 300GB 6G DP 10K SAS (1 hot spare) in RAID 5
On the ESXI 5.1 host I have running
1. Windows 2008 R2 Terminal server allocated 4 vCPU (2 sockets and 2 cores), 14 GB RAM and 250 GB allocated for OS / apps – C drive only, dedicated vSwitch team (2 NICS)
The TS will be used by max of 30 users.
2. Windows 2008 R2 DC allocated 4 vCPU (2 sockets and 2 cores), 14 GB RAM and 250 GB allocated for OS – C drive only 2 NICS to be shared with the Management Interface
Here are a couple of questions that I have:
- CPU – The server has 2 physical processors, how should I allocate these processors to the two servers?
- Memory, the server has 30gb ram, again how should I spread this between the two servers and the esxi console
- Memory Ballooning, can someone explain if I do anything here, I’ve read it causes issues with Remote desktop services.
- We have configured the server with 1 Raid 5 Logical drive and 1 hotpare, Any issues here?
- Different datastores for OS / Apps
- Power policy – should I disable power features from HP BIOS and let VMWare manage it, is the anything we need to enable?
- Passtrough for NIC’s
- Is 2 GB of RAM enough for the host
- Any known issues deploying Terminal Services RDP on VMWare
- VMWare Email Alerting, does anyone know how and where I setup email alerting, I’d like some sort of email alert if something went wrong like for example a network card losing a connection or a dead power hard drive?
- Kind Regards
Andrei
I am new to VMware and need a little guidance, hope that I will find an answer.
I need a best practice guide to follow. Done a lot of research but seem to find only old posts related to vmware 4. I’m about to use Vmware 5
I have the following new hardware:
HP DL 360 G7, 2 x XEON E5606 @ 2.13 quad core (8 cores in total), 30GB RAM, 5 X 300GB 6G DP 10K SAS (1 hot spare) in RAID 5
On the ESXI 5.1 host I have running
1. Windows 2008 R2 Terminal server allocated 4 vCPU (2 sockets and 2 cores), 14 GB RAM and 250 GB allocated for OS / apps – C drive only, dedicated vSwitch team (2 NICS)
The TS will be used by max of 30 users.
2. Windows 2008 R2 DC allocated 4 vCPU (2 sockets and 2 cores), 14 GB RAM and 250 GB allocated for OS – C drive only 2 NICS to be shared with the Management Interface
Here are a couple of questions that I have:
- CPU – The server has 2 physical processors, how should I allocate these processors to the two servers?
- Memory, the server has 30gb ram, again how should I spread this between the two servers and the esxi console
- Memory Ballooning, can someone explain if I do anything here, I’ve read it causes issues with Remote desktop services.
- We have configured the server with 1 Raid 5 Logical drive and 1 hotpare, Any issues here?
- Different datastores for OS / Apps
- Power policy – should I disable power features from HP BIOS and let VMWare manage it, is the anything we need to enable?
- Passtrough for NIC’s
- Is 2 GB of RAM enough for the host
- Any known issues deploying Terminal Services RDP on VMWare
- VMWare Email Alerting, does anyone know how and where I setup email alerting, I’d like some sort of email alert if something went wrong like for example a network card losing a connection or a dead power hard drive?
- Kind Regards
Andrei