170 virtual machines HA requirements

[noor1027]

Dear all,

my questions is : if i need to deploy 170 virtual machines and i need HA. is it possible to deploy all 170 vistual machines on one ESX host and in case one ESX host is down. all virtual will migrate to another ESX host.

what will be the traffice effect on the network card. e.g all of the users are using all virtual machines. what will be the performance on ESX host. what will be the hardware requirements for ESX host for around 170 virtual machines. or how many ESX host required to accomodate 170 virtual machines.

Thanks

noor

[schepp]

Depends on what your hardware configuration is.

1. What hardware does your physical ESX Server has. (CPU, RAM, number of NICs)

2. What virtual hardware do your 170 virtual maschines need?

Theoretical it's possible to run 170 VMs on one host, if it has enough hardware ressources.

[rManic]

You can run max of 320 VM's in a single server with ESX 4 .

But in your case you need HA, so we need to put the ESX in HA cluster .

You can run max of 160 VM's in each ESX (ESX 4 with Update 1)Server in HA cluster. So my recommendation is to use 3 ESX in a HA Cluster.

Each will run ~60 VM's in case of any ESX fails remaning ESX will take over the VM's from the failed ESX.

So configure No of Failover host to 1 during HA configuration.

Recommended H/W: HP Proliant DL385 G6 -3 No.s

with 2X6 core processor

96 GB of high performance RAM.

2X 72 GB internal SAS HDD 15k RPM.

To use HA you need to have shared storage (NAS or SAN) for VM’s VMFS datastore.scale the datastore size according to your requirement

Use VMware vSphere 4 Essential Plus license

Note:-

If your VM’s are processor intensive then go with HP Proliant DL 585 G6 each with 4X 6 ocre processor. And also change the license to vSphere 4 standard

regards

Manic