| it does sound very overkill...what about a backup server? With a 2tb san, can't you just have some less resource-full servers attached to it and fill those up with virtual servers (using either vmware Infrastructure 3 or even, and i hate to say it, the free vmware-server). I'd be very concerned about the ONE server saying bye bye. Especially in an Active Directory environment.
oh, and microsoft virtualization does suck. i'd use vmware-server 1.05 first. I haven't played with server 2008 much, but I would stick with 2003 for now just so i could go in later and bill the upgrade process... actually mostly because it's too new. |