Terminal Server on ESXi servers

All,

I was wondering if I could get a little quick advice on something that I am about to install, any comments would be appreciated:

I intend to run a total of 6 to 8 virtual Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server 32-bit on two servers Dell PowerEdge R710.  These are servers only and will not be configured for HA.

Dell server config is dual Xeon E5620 Procs (8 cores), 2.4 GHz, 16 GB RAM

The two servers will run the local storage (not SAN), with the virtual machine files (6) running 15 k SAS drives (readers separated to install VMWare)

Is the best RAID configuration for this type of server is going to put these 6 drives in RAID 10, or should I divide their - e/s disc is a big concern for me based on past experiences with VMWare - keep in mind that let him down one of my instances of terminal server server is NOT critical as there will be 5-7 virtual servers that can pick up the slack.  Design real requres me to stand 3-4 of them and running at any time between the two servers.

VProcessors how can I put it on every server terminal server, (thinking that 2?)   I have read some things that indicated that multiple processors on the VMs can cause problems?

Thank you

Nate

Welcome to the community,

I have implemented this type of configuration several times with XenApp5 on W2K3, however it should be equal for W2K8.

The configuration I used:

-2 processors of Intel QC (54xx or better)

-min. 20 GB of RAM

-RAID controller with at least 512 MB BBWC/BBU (battery backed cache) for the writeback operation

-2 disks SAS 10 k or better in RAID1 (my virtual disk size for XenApp avarage is ~ 30 GB)

- or 4 discs 2 x RAID1 (see below)

-2 network cards (1 vSwitch with two different network connected to 2 physical switches cards)

-up to 4 virtual machines on a host (1 MS Enterprise license allows you to configure up to 4 virtual machines on a host)

-2 vCPUs per VM (this works better for a workload of XenApp as 1 vCPU)

-RAM by virtual computer-> total amount of RAM minimum ~ 2 GB (for the hypervisor) divided by the number of virtual machines (for example with 16GB and 4 virtual machines--> ~3.5GB by VM)

-NO RAM OVERCOMMITMENT. Usually, I put the memory reserve to the configured amount of RAM. In this way I avoid memory hot-air balloon and I also save disk space, because the swap file doesn't have any disk space.

-Create virtual discs as "eagerzeroedthick" (check the FT/Cluster option in the wizard disk) for better disk performance.

The reason for the 2 x RAID1 instead of 1 RAID10 configuration, it's that most RAID controller can not divide a RAID10 in several logical volumes. I like that the hypervisor in its own logical volume, which offers the possibility, in the case of a disaster - reinstall without affecting the virtual machines on the VMFS volume. So I divided the RAID in a logical volume of 10 GB (~ 5 GB for the hypervisor and scratch partition) a logical volume for the "production" data store and a small store of VMFS data for example ISO files

André

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