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VMware Concerns & Questions
LockedFirst, I have little to no knowledge of VMWare and its capabilities. But, as fate would have it, I’m looking at losing a long term client to a company pitching VMWare. I’ve been asked to sit-in and offer myself as a technical resource “if” they decide to move. From teh giddyness of my client in the meeting I suspect the decision is already made.
The main question I need to know, for my own knowledge (not to influence the decision process of my client), is how much bandwidth each workstation will need to work in the virtualized environment? I met with this company’s sales staff (full press too) and they were very ambiguous. We ahve 25 people on the primary site with a 3MB Qwest DSL connection. They are looking to virtualize all of their data (260GB) and their primary Accounting and Estimating (pervasive SQL based).
Could someone tell me the amount of bandwidth needed per workstation running VMware?
I would appreciate knowing any other concerns related to moving from a WAN to VMWare as well.
If I lose the long term client, so be it. But I wouldn’t want to see them screwed over as I exit.