1) Yes, quite easy on a modern box but to be on the safe side I would
recommend 16GB Ram in the system.
2) A modern dual quad core Xeon with 16Gb RAM and decent raid should handle
this very easily. You could proably get away with single cpu quad core with 8Gb
RAM.
3) All have different IPs.
4) Not entirely sure I unserstand this question. Are you talking about
additional client VMs?
5) It is more of a RAM requirement per VM prediction, add together you
predictions for each VM and round up to the near 4Gb would be my recommendation.
If your server load is light (Probably is with only 10 users) then
Vurtualization of the servers is a good idea. Virtualization of the desktops
though may not be a good idea, will probably be slower and annoy people. For
fast restore of desktop hard disks there are many imaging programs and PXE based
network loaders that would be better suited than Xen.
Rob
From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Ramón Aguado
Martínez
Sent: 13 January 2009 07:48
To: Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [Xen-users] New to XEN
Hello to all.
I''m new to Xen and virtualization. We are a small business, with up to
10 users. In order to reduce our TCO, I''m thinking on installing
virtual machines to cut down costs and maintenance.
1) A 10/100/1000 network to which 1 virtual machine server attached
2) The different virtual server to run in it are :
a. MS Windows 2003/2008 Domain controller, DHCP and DNS Server
b. MS Windows 2003/2008 File and SGBD Server (SQL Server 2005)
c. MS Windows 2003/2008 Application Server (Autocad 2008, MS Office 2007,
Outlook 2007, A windows based ERP, Adobe CS, other graphical applications)
d. MS Windows 2003/2008 Virtual Desktop or Terminal Server (Maybe this
should be the same as the previous one)
3) One ISA2006 Firewall with 3 Net cards (WAN, Intranet and Print Network).
I want two separate networks, one for users one for print, scan and fax
hardware.
4) One Print, Scan and Fax SMS Windows 2003/2008 Server, attached to the
Print, Scan Fax Network.
The thing is:
1) Is it possible to run 4 to 5 VM on 1 Server, Remember all are Windows
2003 or 2008 Servers?
2) Minimum hardware requirements for this?
3) Do all server have different IP addresses or all have the same?
4) Can I install one Server with several MS Windows XP WM per user? 10 to
15 MS WXP VM? Can each machine have a different IP address?
5) Since there is going to be a big memory usage with the graphical
applications, how much RAM is required per user?
The main thing is to have all users working with dumb terminals (Thin Clients),
that can be up and running with minimum hardware requirements. This brings down
the time consuming operatios of having to reinstall each of the user''s
PC, when we have breakdowns.
Next week I''m starting to set up a lab, trying to get it all to work.
Thanking you all for an early reply,
Ramón Aguado Martínez
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