dragooner's Posts

The ways you are going to chose both good.But When you chose one,you must know what you really want to.Boot from san or boot form local disk is not important,the most important thing is what you really need. In common time,boot from local disk is a good way for using.When the ESXi hypervisor has problems,you can reinstalls it.VMs should be storaged in the san disk array, this way can avoid much host problem,even disaster.

Hi,knight.As you know,the VCB is free for used,but it only supports fully backup.VDR supports more function,just like Differences backup,but it needs advanced license,ENT,ENT plus. One thing you must pay attention,VCB and VDR only can backup VMs. If you buy a third party Backup software,you do not only backup ESX,you also could backup other application,just like DB,file or any others. The third party backup software supplys you can do all the backup job in one environment.

You could use the DAS storage to build your HA/DRS ESX cluster. But one thing you need to do is that make sure you can config share lun in the storage. Maybe I think too much, the share lun is the basic function in a storage.

Rumple said a important thing,use VM or use physical server depended on your user loads. I had talked with the Citrix venders, they suggested use physical server. In my opinion, VM or physical server all depends on your use load and your application scale.

Nice question. First, you should know which traffic is the management information,and which is the data information. Second, you described a HA happen time. And at this time you should know anther thing is that you had opened the VM detecting which can be configed at the cluster “edit setting”. Help with the vmtools, your VC and ESX hosts can always detect your VM running. When you use RDP to connect with your VMs, the data traffic will use the VM port group,at the same time VC and your ESX hosts use the service console to detect you VM’s status. So, you can see,the management traffic will always use the service console, and the community information with the VM will be always used the VM port group. BTW:When a host offline, VMs on it are not migrated,but restart on the other hosts or you can say other hosts restart those VMs.

Hi, you guy: The traffic will be on the vm port group,when you connected the VM which used RDP. You should read the introduction about the service console,vmkernel and the vitrual machine port group. BTW:in the cluster environment the service console must be redundant.

A OH....Maybe you shoud first add a vDS for your destination ESX hosts or ESXi Hosts.If they are ESX 3.5 hosts, you should better upgrade those Hosts. But the most confused thing is that why you do this work?

AMM....I have test the citrix xenserver in the esx hosts. It was really could be run.But,if you want to use this infrastructure in the product environment, I thought you should do much more test work.