Server Virtualization Configuration

Andover Public Schools

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Dell r710: Intel Dual Six Core Xeon 2.67Ghz110 Gb RAM - 8TB SAN 4Gb FC connection

Dell r710: Intel Dual Quad Core Xeon 2.4 Ghz98 Gb RAM - 8TB SAN 4Gb FC connection

Dell r710: Intel Dual Quad Core Xeon 2.4 Ghz49 Gb RAM - 3TB Internal SAS RAID

Dell Poweredge 6850: Intel Quad Xeon 3.16Ghz16 Gb RAM - 1TB Internal SCSI RAID

Dell Poweredge 2850: Intel Dual Core Xeon 2.8 Ghz16 Gb RAM - 8TB SAN 4Gb FC connection

ESXi 4.022 Virtual Servers

ESXi 4.012 Virtual Servers

ESXi 4.011 Virtual Servers

ESXi 4.06 Virtual Servers

ESXi 4.013 Virtual Servers

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Virtual Environment

• All Servers sit in the same virtual center

• Dell Poweredge 2850 resides in DR Center and holds backup copies of mission critical servers for DR. All virtual servers sit in off mode with the exception of “Yesterday PowerSchool”, a DR copy of PowerSchool SIS.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Mobile Connectivity

• We can administrate Vsphere through the iPad app.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Benefits of Server Virtualization

• Virtual servers reduce your costs. Virtualization causes you to buy less hardware thereby saving you money. Also the operating costs are reduced with virtualization.

• Virtualization makes the servers stable and reduces downtimes considerably thereby making servers and the websites hosted on them available at all times. It ensures high availability and delivers prompt disaster recovery thereby offering you business continuity.

• Virtualization of servers lets you utilize the resources to the fullest. With automation and better utilization of available resources, virtualization increases the efficiency of the server.

• Another benefit of server virtualization is that it helps save space in your data centers as the number of physical servers is much less than the number of servers that are being used.

Thursday, May 12, 2011