Re: hardware question

Hello Steve Gould" steven.gould at seattle.gov,

This is a hot topic, but Microsoft states that they dont support Configuration Manager on VMWare, but I have all my test environment on VMWare untill i recently switched it to Hyper-V without any issues, but pleae check with your TAM or local Microsoft representative on that. Usually companies dont want unsupported configurations ;)

Depending on what roles you are planning to use virtually I would say it would be a to big problem, but as you might know OSD for an example is very disc I/O intense and its the disk I/O that sets the limit for such roles. And virtual environments and disk I/O usually dont go hand in hand.

Best Regards

Stefan

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We are making a push to virtualize all servers that can be using
VMWare Server. The guests have shared 3GB pipe and plenty of processor
power and RAM, the hosts are about 5% loaded. I am drawing up our
architecture design now for SCCM. At first there will be just one Site
server and two distribution servers. One distro server will also do
PXE and the other User State Migration.

My question, I have tested the distro roles in VM and have decent
performance, but is this a good idea in production? Has anyone done
this and what were your experiences? This site will contain about 3000
workstations. The site server will be a physical host.

Thanks in advance!

Steve G



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