A Hardware and environment question

[wbodger]

OK, my sysadmin wants to move everything to a virtual environment with VMware as the backbone. His thought is to take a 1 or 2 u server with dual 8 core AMD procs and around 32 MBs RAM and install the VMware ESX (or was it ESXi?) as the base. From there he wants to create a 'cluster' of VMs for our SQL Server 2008R2 db. Will this actually benefit performance significantly? It is an OLTP database that also has our CRM integrated into the same db that handles our e-commerce gateway. I am still suspicious of that extra layer for our database and not sure of the benefits since it is all on the same server.

Can anybody else here give me some more input?

Thanks,
wb

 

[mrdenny]

Running SQL Server under VMware is fine, as long as the VMware server can provide the same or more resources to the guest OS that your current physical machines can.

I can't comment on if it will benefit your systems performance without knowing what your current config looks like.

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