Windows 2003 Print Server

[duhaas]

I plan on migrating our print server that currently supports 200 printers to a VM and just wanted to know what experience folks have had either good or bad? Found a couple references, but wanted to get an updated look @ what your folks might be doing.

[Jasemccarty]

Stood up a Windows 2003 Print Server at my second job on ESX 3.5.

120 printers, servicing 1500 users.

No issues.

Jase McCarty

http://www.jasemccarty.com

Co-Author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center

(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach

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[Dollar · Accepted solution]

I have a total of 6 Virtual Machine Print Servers (Windows 2003 Server., SP2) running thousands of remote printers (with the printers on the other ends of the WAN). No problems. Each Print Server has 1024MB memory and 1 CPU.

[kjb007]

We piloted a print cluster servicing a building with a couple hundred users and lots of printers. I'm not sure of the count right now, but it went really well. We will be updating print services in the remaining buildings shortly with virtual servers.

-KjB

[duhaas]

Thanks everyone for the great response, makes me feel better about the migration.