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Old 04-11-2008, 12:12 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by jibi View Post
As someone mentioned, I'd invest the extra money, get ESX and install it on the server then virtualize both the Deltek and BES software. You'd have shared backend memory utilization with both Windows and the MSDE instances and you could even throw up a number of other servers when the time came to put something new online. But that's just me. It may require a look at new server hardware in the long run, but stay on the same architecture (Intel/AMD) and you won't have an issue with simply vmotion'ing (or is it converting now) the server from one host server to the other. Honestly, it's the way to go.
That was me. The difference is $500 for a supported config. At on point I ran 12 VM on an ESX box. 2 dual core Xeon at 3GHZ and 8GB RAM. One was my main file server. BES was there. Everything else was 'utility' type servers, Antivirus, net monitor, e-mail marketing, web servers, tht kind ogf stuff. Never had a performance issue.

If your boss balks at $500, I'd start looking at the want ads.
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