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Originally Posted by mannyo
The customer I work for currently runs 4 physical servers running VMWare, spread across those 4 hosts we currently have around 75 virtual servers all running off those 4 boxes. Each of those 4 boxes has dual Xeon quad core CPUs and 128GB of RAM in each. I look after and maintain the whole lot, plus 2 other physical servers which are required due to needing access to PCIe cards. Storage wise we have two large NAS connected via multipath iSCSI to each host, we have at least 100TB of storage and more. The biggest headache is network cables because of the multipath IO to the SAN, each host has 8 network cables for the LAN connectivity and 8 for the SAN, so 16 cables in each host.
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That's quite an impressive setup!
Just quads though? Aren't you over-provisioning the available cores somewhat with 75 VMs? ... or does that include redundant VMs?
And wouldn't it be better to use Fibre Channel to the SAN to reduce the amount of network cables needed?
That's a hell of a lot of storage too! What sort of application is this lot running? And out of interest, do you virtualise your DCs or are they physical?
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