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Darian929
Member Posts: 197
Hello,
I am in the process of convincing my company to start virtualizing all our server because we currently are in the stone age and have 10 different physical servers for 30 people... so I want to virtualize them and then also start the process of trying out XenDesktop 5... my question would be is since I would be looking into a storage solution like equallogic or netapp i wanted to know how much storage I would need. Is there any good tool you guys recommend to scan my servers or something I can run on each server to give me a breakdown of my storage...?
Thanks in advance.
I am in the process of convincing my company to start virtualizing all our server because we currently are in the stone age and have 10 different physical servers for 30 people... so I want to virtualize them and then also start the process of trying out XenDesktop 5... my question would be is since I would be looking into a storage solution like equallogic or netapp i wanted to know how much storage I would need. Is there any good tool you guys recommend to scan my servers or something I can run on each server to give me a breakdown of my storage...?
Thanks in advance.
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jibbajabba
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Easiest would be Guided Consolidation ... have a look at that ....My own knowledge base made public: http://open902.com
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JDMurray
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scott28tt
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Guided Consolidation doesn't show storage usage, and you can only install and use it once you have vCenter Server installed and managing at least one ESX/ESXi host. It has also been removed from vSphere 5.VCP2 / VCP3 / VCP4 / VCP5 / VCAP4-DCA / VCI / vExpert 2010-2012
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JDMurray
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Is there a replacement? Is there a better 3rd-party equivalent?It has also been removed from vSphere 5. -
scott28tt
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If all you're trying to do is find out the partition sizes and free space of a bunch of physical Windows servers, as in this post, there are "Windows ways" of doing that via WMI, Powershell, etc.
Guided Consolidation borrowed technology from Capacity Planner, which VMware partners can use to conduct a full pre-virtualisation assessment for potential and current VMware customers:
VMware Capacity Planner for Server Consolidation and Containment
The third-party tool that's the most well-known in this area is Novell PlateSpin Recon:
PlateSpin Recon
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Claymoore
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You can use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit:
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
You can run an analysis to see what RAM/Storage/Processors you will need in the virtual environment. -
Darian929
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Thanks a bunch now the capacity planner is at a cost? I can't use it to run the tool and make an assesment so I can see what I need?
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aordal
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Might be dumb. but. How big are your weekly full backups uncompressed/undeduped? Is that information that you have? If so it would give you a baseline and if you have historical data on your weekly backup sizes you can make an estimate on how much you have grown over the past 6-12 months.
