We just purchased the VM 4.1 Accel kit for medium business for 3 hosts. I have a couple questions I you folks couple answer??? We do not have VM inplace yet but are about to. Just finished to class and have been messing around with it on a couple HP DL580's. We don't have a lot of funds so we were going to use our two DL580's and buy a third host. We are going to VM around 25 servers. Here are my questions.
1. We have two HP Proliant DL580 G5's Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X7350 @ 2.93GHz. I have updated firmware and they will run VMware ESX 4.1 However, will it run VMotion? We have an EMC Clariion CX4 and would like to tie them in along with a new (third host) so we can implement DRS. I ran a tool from "www.run-virtual.com", and it appears these servers will run VMotion, and I checked VM's compatability site and it appears it will run with a patch. However, I wanted your imput.
The boxes checked in the tool were: VT Enables = Yes, YT Capable = Yes, SSE = YEs, SSE2 = Yes, SSE3 = Yes, CMPXC = Yes
Now I know in order to run Vmotion and DRS the processor types need to be the same. Would it be safe to purchase another DL580, but a G6 with an updated intel processor?
