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Originally Posted by radyvix  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. |
They have a pretty good backup solution, but i'm getting them an even better one. Right now they have a 1TB sonicwall cdp that does file based backup and backs up a manually created (well, via script and scheduler) acronis system image each night. Then pushes all data offsite each evening. I'm replacing that with a 2 TB appliance that does similar file backups via agent to the appliance and offsite but instead of the acronis images, it does a system "snapshot" that can be mounted as virtual machines in case of the host failing.
And yah, i did what you suggested and put 03 on it with vmware server. I just told them this is a better solution until 2008 and hyper-v mature. I convinced myself to go that route when I loaded 2008 core with only hyper-v installed on a vm, then went to manage it on my vista vm, which told me i needed to install sp1 to run the manager, and sp1 put my vista vm on constant reboot. So yah, fuck vista and 2008 for now.