So I have been throwing around the idea for a while to offer SBS 2008 Premium as a virtualized solution on 1 server versus 2… I was wondering if anyone has used this solution and/or their opinions on it…
For instance, a standard setup may look like this…
Redundant power supply
2 x 500 GB Hot Swappable Hard Drives
RAID 1
8 GB RAM
1 x Xeon Processor
1 x DVD ROM
1 x Internal Back Up Disk Drive (RD1000 / RDX)
2 x 500 GB Back Up Disk Cartridges (For RD1000 / RDX)
Dual Gigabit Network Adapter
Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 Premium
Redundant power supply
2 x 500 GB Hot Swappable Hard Drives
RAID 1
8 GB RAM
1 x Xeon Processor
1 x DVD ROM
Dual Gigabit Network Adapter
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (From the SBS ’08 Premium)
Whereas the virtualized setup may look like this…
Redundant power supply
2 x 500 GB Hot Swappable Hard Drives
RAID 1
16 GB RAM
1 x Quad Core Xeon Processor
1 x DVD ROM
1 x Internal Back Up Disk Drive (RD1000 / RDX)
2 x 500 GB Back Up Disk Cartridges (For RD1000 / RDX)
Dual Gigabit Network Adapter
VMware ESXi
Virtualization 1 – Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 Premium
Virtualization 2 – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (From the SBS ’08 Premium)