Cameron J. Smith http://www.cameronjsmith.com Administration, virtualization, storage, and security thoughts ... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:09:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Enterprise virtualization on a budget http://www.cameronjsmith.com/2009/12/02/enterprise-virtualization-on-a-budget/ http://www.cameronjsmith.com/2009/12/02/enterprise-virtualization-on-a-budget/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:44:55 +0000 Cameron http://www.cameronjsmith.com/?p=19 In the coming posts I will be detailing the architecture that I designed for a recent work project that aimed to build a cost-effective virtualization environment to span two university colleges.  Here are the broad strokes:

  • Three LeftHand iSCSI SAN nodes using VSA with a total of 27TB of usable space
  • Two HP DL585’s with 4×4 procs, 128GB RAM, 16 NIC’s
  • Two redundant HP ProCurve 2910al switches
  • PowerVault MD1000 with 11.25TB for backup storage
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