Re: Sizing / Design (ESX vs Physical)



Why would you virtualize just one server? Why would you virtualize ISA?
Rmember that everything goes through the NIC or NIC teams.
What level of traffic are you expecting from your 1600 users? Is there a
peak time? What kind of traffic would you allow?

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Julian Dragut
www.networkmanager.org
"iloisus" <iloisus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, we are planning to migrate our current ISA 2000 server to ISA 2006.
This
ISA is used only for Internet Access and Caching (no firewall, no VPN).We
are
discussing the following possibilities:

1. ESX installation: one virtual server on brand new dual core hardware
2. Physical installation: two servers with network load balancing, also
new
hardware.

- What are your experiences about the sizing? Would one server be enough
for
1600 users?
- Do you have any experiences with ESX 3.0?
- What about a mix between both solutions (ESX and network load
balancing) -
how reliable would that be and how complex to install and maintain?

Thanks for feedback.




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