Running Terminal Server Farm on Virtual Server

[Don]

I was wondering if anyone could point me to information or give their
thoughts regarding "virtualizing" a Terminal Server 2003 farm onto a x64
Windows Virtual Server 2005R2 box.

Currently we have (7) 32-bit TS2k3 servers in WLB cluster with about 300
terminals. The servers are on separate physical boxes. I'd like to
consolidate those onto 1 or 2 64bit VS05R2 machines with lots of memory.

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Thanks,
Don

 

[Helge Klein]

Well, here are a few thoughts on your proposition (by no means
complete):

What do you gain by moving 7 physical servers to 7 (I suppose) virtual
servers? You still have to manage and patch all those (virtual)
servers.

Another line of thought: You need at least 2 physical host servers for
redundancy. Think of what happens if one (physical) server has a
hardware problem: all users will be connecting to the remaining
servers. If you have 7 machines that is no problem: each machine has
an additional load of 16.7%. But if you have only two physical
servers, if one of them fails the other machine has to sustain 100%
more load!

I think you are better off leaving the current setup unchanged. If you
do not agree please post your motivation to migrate to Virtual Server.

I hope this helps.

Helge

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On 4 Aug., 00:12, Don <D...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could point me to information or give their
> thoughts regarding "virtualizing" a Terminal Server 2003 farm onto a x64
> Windows Virtual Server 2005R2 box.
>
> Currently we have (7) 32-bit TS2k3 servers in WLB cluster with about 300
> terminals. The servers are on separate physical boxes. I'd like to
> consolidate those onto 1 or 2 64bit VS05R2 machines with lots of memory.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Don