I have some questions that I know you guys will be able to answer. I am a new IT guy for a manufacturing plant. I am new to being an IT manager having only a background in Staples Easytech and Hardware support for an international car dealership software design company.
The layout here is that we have 6 servers: File server, and DC ERP Server Dell Appasure server Old DC Server Exchange 2010 Server Terminal Server
I am really wanting to consolidate things down and get some virtualization in here but I am still very new in it. I messed around some with VMware in my Server class in college.
I have a few concerns however and it mostly has to do with the file server:
1.I know that Hyper-v Would be installed on the primary drive on the server and would be running with Windows server installed on it. What would be a good method to do a backup of the file server that is running virtualization?
2.Should I keep the Dell Appasure?
3.Is it wise to have more than 1 VM's running on the file server?
What would be a good method to do a backup of the file server that is running virtualization?
- Can you clarify that? IMO, I see fewer and fewer reasons to run workloads on dedicated physical servers these days, except for special cases, and I don't see one in this question. Virtualize? Yes.