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BobF123
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‎06-17-2009 09:36 PM

Hardware Configuration for ESXi Host and SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007) vms

A Dell PowerEdge with Dual Quad Core Xeon Processors and 32GB RAM was recommended to install an ESXi host for the following vms: SharePoint Server 2007, SQL Server 2005, Domain Controller, Exchange Server. At most I might install 3 more vms on this host.

I believe that this server has been over-speced. Right? I imagine this server has the capacity to host 20-30vms.

Since I want to leverage Windows Clustering for redundancy and load balancing wouldn't I be better off buying 2 Dell Servers with half of the memory and processor cores, installing a Sharepoint Cluster and a SQL Server Cluster (with 1 vm per host), and by connecting the Sql Servers cluster to a shared storage.

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AndreTheGiant
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‎06-17-2009 09:54 PM

I believe that this server has been over-speced. Right?

Right Smiley Wink

I imagine this server has the capacity to host 20-30vms.

Maybe 10-20 VMs.

Much depends on your SQL and Exchange load and how much vRAM and vCPU you will assign at this two VMs.

PS: be sure to have another DC on another ESX server, or in a physical machine.

Andre

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