<html><head><base href="x-msg://9/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jim-<div><br></div><div>We virtualize as much as possible, using VMware. This includes:</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Windows AD and supporting services such as DNS, DHCP, and SCCM (we keep 1 physical AD server just in case)</li><li>Web servers</li><li>3rd party applications as much as possible. We still get the occasional "our app isn't supported in a virtualized environment", but by in large we have yet to encounter a problem virtualizing 3rd party apps.</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>About the only things we don't virtualize are email (we are Office 365 customers) and databases. I'm a little hesitant to put production versions of these servers on VMs…just my paranoia I guess that performance could be an issue. That being said, I know a lot of people who do these as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps!</div><div><br></div><div>Greg.</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Jim Lack wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Cambria; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">How many of you have virtualized your servers? What applications or services have you virtualized? What applications do you suggest not virtualizing?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Thank You,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Jim Lack<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Network Manager<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Rocky River Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">1600 Hampton Rd.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Rocky River, OH 44116<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OPLINTECH mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OPLINTECH@lists.oplin.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">OPLINTECH@lists.oplin.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.oplin.org/mailman/listinfo/oplintech" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.oplin.org/mailman/listinfo/oplintech</a><br>Search:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://oplin.org/techsearch" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://oplin.org/techsearch</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cambria; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cambria; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cambria; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#920D0D">...............................................................................................................................</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#920D0D"><b>Greg Syferd</b></font></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#920D0D">Systems Administration Manager</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#920D0D">Columbus Metropolitan Library</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#920D0D">Twitter: </font></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#920D0D"><a href="http://twitter.com/gsyferd"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#920D0D">@gsyferd</font></span></font></a> | gTalk: gsyferd | 614.479.4037</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#920D0D"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#920D0D" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><i>(I usually check every email twice a day and try to respond in 24-48 hours.)</i></span></font></div></div></span></div></span></span>
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