Hardware for 3 VM's Help me please.

[logicsound]

Need help with Hardware Requirements for 3 vm servers .  Using newest vmware hypervisor esxi

Physical Hardware Requirements for servers

Server 1 (N-central)= Intel xeon 55xx and 6gb memory, 160gb HD  (think this is a little over kill, we are running this on a 5yr old server with xeon X3210 2.13ghz now with no issues)

Server 2 (N-compass)= Dual core and 4gb of memory, 150gb HD

Server 3(Connectwise)= Dual core and 8gb of memory, 300gb HD

Also need recommendations on Hard drives and configuration, I just plan on using 2 tb's and creating a hardware mirror (I know I am going to get bashed for this, but its what I have always done and been burned by Raid5 before) but very interested in other ideas.

I am thinking I can get by with following

High end quad core processor (not sure which one yet) and assign 2 cores to Server 1 (n-central), 1 to Server 2 (n-compass) and 1 to Server 3 (connectwise)

32 gb of memory

4 1 tb drives  (2 mirrors)

Look forward to your comments and ideas

THANKS!!

[weinstein5]

What you are proposing should work with no issues -

One thing to point is you assign a core to a VM you configure a VM with virtual CPUs and the hypervisor will schedule the vCPUs to a core -

[logicsound]

Thanks for your reply!!  Can you expand more on configuring the vm with virtual cpus?    In the past I have created a vm in esxi and assigned a socket and a core to it, so if I wanted a 2 cpu vm I would assign 1 socket and 2 cores.   Is this correct or am I missing something?

Thanks,

T

[weinstein5]

WHat you have been doing is fine - my comment was more directed that vCPUs are scheduled by the vmkernel to the physical cores - and when assigning vcpus to a vm - a virtual socket CPU with dual cores is the same as assigning dual vcpus to a vm - the reason for the is to skirt around software that is licensed by socket -

[logicsound]

Ok thanks!   I am looking at this processor right now (it has 6 cores) but a little worried about the 1.9 part

Intel Xeon E5-2420 @ 1.90GHz

Do you think this will work or do I need to go bigger,  I really really appreciate all your help!! 

[logicsound]

Sorry me again.   I am looking at this server and was hoping you could let me know if it will work or not before I purchase.  ( no I am not buying form this site, its just for reference)

http://www.frontierpc.com/computers/entry-level-servers/server/lenovo/thinkserver-ts130-1106g5u-serv...

THANKS!!!!