[THIN] Re: OT vmware
- From: "Ron Oglesby" <roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:24:16 -0600
Exactly. When you configure a Cluster node in ESX you can configure the
shared storage as a VM ware disk file (if both nodes are VMs) or you can
use a direct connection via san to the LUN required.
You would configure your hardware then configure the VM to use that LUN
exclusively like normal cluster configs.
Ron Oglesby
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee, David (CITY TREASURY) [mailto:David.Lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 4:21 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT vmware
OK Ron, the principle sounds great, a bit like Legato Octopus, but would
this work in a SAN environment? Can you set up the ESX passive nodes
server
to address all the shared LUNs of each cluster, but still ensure that
only
relevant LUNs can be presented to each virtual node?
Regards
David Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Oglesby [mailto:roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 January 2004 22:21
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT vmware
Well lets hit these a little bit.....
Lets assume you have the need to Cluster 10 servers. That means 20 nodes
total in an active passive config for each box. (depending on hardware
config of course and if you use a passive node for more than one cluster
etc...)
Anyway What IF you could take one Quad processor box, and use it to host
ESX with 10 VMs hosting the passive nodes...... in a failure of any one
of the active nodes you would get the same performance as having a
physical box if not better, or you could sustain a failure on two
physical nodes, and still be at about 98% performance on the virtual
clusters that take over.
In either case it truly saves on the amount of physical hardware
required for cluster environments.
Or if you need multiple servers clustered and these server wont use a
lot of the processor and memory available in one of the DL 380 clusters
in a box.
You could configure ESX to host multiple virtual clusters on the single
set of hardware and get hardware redundancy and software redundancy and
save a good amount on hardware....
Ron Oglesby
Senior Technical Architect
Microsoft MVP, Windows Server
RapidApp
Office 312.372.7188
Mobile 815.325.7618
email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam.Baum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Adam.Baum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:34 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT vmware
Ron,
Near the end of your msg, you mentioned clustering. I am about to
embark
on designing the server infrastructure for our new art center. I'm
contemplating clusters for three reasons:
1) The Arts center is a revenue generator so I want to ensure that we
can
sell tickets 24x7.
2) The majority of events take place after normal business hrs -
meaning
limited support staff which also means longer time for someone like me
to
drag my @ss out of bed to drive in and fix things.
3) The Arts center is the core of our dowtown redevelopment and is
HIGHLY
visible - politics require that I want to keep my job, I keep the
systems
up.
I think I could use VMware for better resource utilization, but how does
it
help when you are trying to have physical redundancy?
adam
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