Re: Windows 2008 TS Memory
I would recommend first of all researching your options before following
through on any plan.
What VMWare product? Keep in mind that anhything that runs on top of
Windows (barring Hyper-V of course) is going through a few hops just to get
to the hardware. for instance, VMWare ESX, virtual iron, go through one
layer of virtualization and run their own specialized kernels design
specifically for virtualization. Windows has none of this and you are going
through at least two layers of virtualization to gain hardware access. I
would highly, highly recommend that you become much more familiar with
virtualization before you delve into this area. I dont' want to sound mean
or anything but you didn't even know that hyper-v is 64-bit only and that
was your game plan. I cannot stress enough that learning about new
technology before you jump into it, especially with virtualization is
critical.
As for how many users, it's hard to say. Way to many variables but may
anywhere from 5 - 20 quite easily less, possibly more. I truthfully can't
think of an organization, at least ones I've dealt with, that would put
anything less than ESX, Virtual Iron, XEN, or possibly Hyper-v into a
production environment.
Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
"Schmeg" <sschmeg@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> My original plan was to use Hyper-V from the Windows 2008 32-bit standard
> host as I wasn't aware Hyper-V was only supported on 64-bit. Knowing that,
> I would likely pursue the VMWare product.
>
> What do you consider as "very few users on the system before it is a
> performance issue" and what would make it the performance hog - the
> virtualization or other reasons?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> "Jeff Pitsch" <jeff@jeffpitschconsulting.com> wrote in message
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>> What are you using for virtualization? Keep in mind that Virtual Server
>> will give you lousy performance and Hyper-v is only supported on 64-bit.
>> Of course this will all depend on how many users you are planningo n the
>> server but in your configuration, yes it will work with PAE switch on the
>> host OS, you will get very few users on the system before it performance
>> is an issue.
>>
>> Jeff Pitsch
>> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
>>
>>
>> "Schmeg" <sschmeg@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23MrEpMb5IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>I have a Windows 2008 Stanard 32-bit terminal server.
>>>
>>> I need to run a Windows 2003 Standard 32-bit terminal server on it as a
>>> virtual machine.
>>>
>>> Our applications are not 64-bit compatible and do not have near term
>>> plans to support it.
>>>
>>> I know Windows 2008 Standard has a memory limit of 4G.
>>>
>>> With the virtual machine scenario, I am limited to splitting the 4G or
>>> could I physically put 8G in the box and split 4G for the host OS and 4g
>>> for the guest OS ?
>>>
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