Bruno9873 wrote:
Also i'm considering about just buying one server, install ESX 4.1 free version and see how it goes. Indeed, all my VMs will be on the same server but i could build it a little bit stronger. Like having dual-everything configuration (Controllers, NICs, PSUs, etc).
Buying one server and a good NAS with high throughput, i think my solution would be good. Until now they always had a single server .. That server would be used in the future for test purpose or anything else.
What do you think?
If you're buying one server, why buy a NAS? Local storage is cheaper.
It boils down to this.
That load can easily run on one server. If you're buying two, it's because you want redundancy.
If you're buying another server to get redundancy, you must have a NAS become your single point of failure. If you buy a cheap NAS that isn't significantly more reliable than either server, you've actually gone backwards from a single server environment.