Virtualisation infrastructure help?
Anyone out there with experience in small / medium scale virtualisation infrastructure, ideally with Dell hardware and Citrix XenServer?
I'm looking at two servers with one external storage unit, or possibly just two servers with onboard storage. One of the current metal systems I'm looking to move to VM is a database which currently is on a machine with eight 73GB 10k drives (so, lots of fast spindles) that still manages to eat a lot of IOPS at times.
One of my concerns is running out of IOPS and choking out other VMs. Maybe that's not a concern, I have no idea. That's really the problem here, I have no idea. Fuck, I'm starting to feel like I have no idea what I'm doing about anything. Yeesh.
I'm looking at two servers with one external storage unit, or possibly just two servers with onboard storage. One of the current metal systems I'm looking to move to VM is a database which currently is on a machine with eight 73GB 10k drives (so, lots of fast spindles) that still manages to eat a lot of IOPS at times.
One of my concerns is running out of IOPS and choking out other VMs. Maybe that's not a concern, I have no idea. That's really the problem here, I have no idea. Fuck, I'm starting to feel like I have no idea what I'm doing about anything. Yeesh.