Re: hardware question

Thanks for your response. I sent the request to our account manager. I had
already tried to send to our MSFT Solution Specialist who never answered
me...Maybe I'll have better luck now. :)


"Stefan Schörling" <stefan@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4dc31d2020d28ca6077549bf579@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
Feel free to e-mail or add me on msn messenger

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Stefan Schörling
MCSE: Secuity, MCSA:Messaging
E-Mail / MSN Messenger: stefan@xxxxxxxx
System Management Blog: www.msfaq.se
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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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