Thanks for the help guys! I just attend the VMWare infastructure class and have played with our lab equipment. We will be using Dell 1950's and 2950's depending on wether they need HBA cards for the EMC SAN or not. We do not have an experienced VMWare tech on had, your looking at it.

What is the best way to do this...

Have you done your

sizing analysis yet? Worked out your VM per core rations, RAM per VM

ratios (in normal model and in maintenance mode, aka down a host). Have

you done your cluster sizing yet? Are you scaling up or scaling out. If

you don't get the balance of RAM vs CPU right you are going to waste a

bit of money. Has VMware or a partner run a Consolidation Estimate yet?

It has good data to feed this analysis.

Thanks Again!

Chris Edwards