Tuesday, March 20, 2007

VMware consolidation project, answer

To answer my own question of how a VMware server with 5 host and 4 HBA's (2 going to the SAN and 2 going to the XServeRAID) will share resourse?

I'll need ESX server and the ESX server will find all the hardware. It will act as the sole server connected to the SAN and XServeRAID. The five virtual server will no nothing of these storage devices. The ESX server will have the two paths to the SAN and two paths the the XServeRAID with two of each HBA. Once setup the ESX server will have the drives needed for each server before the actual virtual servers are installed. Then I'll install the OS's and assign the disks to each server.

I can't wait to tackle this project.

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