On Jan 31, 2011, at 12:20 PM, carlopmart <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/31/2011 03:57 PM, Ross Walker wrote:>>> virtual machines running on HP ML115 > server. >>>> >>>> Where is the problem?? Problem is the storage. All storage resides on the HP ML150 >>>> server. For that reason I need to install a server as a virtual storage to run most >>>> of the virtual machines running on the server HP ML115 with the exception of >>>> firewalls and the DMZ server that resides on the HP ML115's local disk. >>>> >>>> For backups I have an external usb disk with 1TB. >>> >>> You can probably make that work if you don't care much about performance, but it >>> would be much better to toss at least one more drive in the the ML115 - and >>> maybe more RAM in both. Even better if you can add several drives and keep each >>> VM that is active (the firewalls/DNS server, etc. shouldn't be busy but the >>> squid will unless you disable the disk cache) on its own drive. And more RAM >>> would help too. >> >> I would probably take the memory from the 115 and put it in the 150 and have 1 highly usable system instead of a .75 and .50 usable system. >> >> That's if I couldn't buy more memory. I would say 8GB is a min, 16GB preferred, 32GB is great > > At this moment I can't buy more RAM. > > . Are these single socket or dual socket? > > HP ML150 is dual socket, but ML115 not. > >> >> Can the smart array be shared between two hosts? > > No. >> Then I suggest loading all the RAM from the 115 into the 150 (if it's the same type) and have a really good ESXi box and the 115 around as a spare in case the 150 fails. When monies come available you could buy a second CPU or more RAM depending on what resource is needed most. -Ross