> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been looking at virtualising part of our network for a while now
> and was failrly set on using VMware ESX to achieve this. However
> recent reading up of Server2008 Hyper V and seeing a demo of it has
> made me consider this approach instead. A couple of questions that i
> have not been able to totally clarify and that i'm hoping someon here
> will be able to help...
>
> Server 2008 Enterprise allows licensing of 4 virtual servers to be run
> on the box - assuming these were all configured as Server2003 and
> clients on our domain were only accessing these machines and nothing
> directly on the Server 2008 machine would they only require 2003 CALs
> or would we have to also purchase 2008 CALs?
>
> What is the best solution for storage, we have a fairly small network
> and would be looking at something in the region of 3 physical boxes
> each running VMs, ignoring any form of clustering at the moment, wuld
> it be best to run these systems directly from their physical boxes
> (all configured with RAID 5 SAS 15000rpm) or to put a SAN in place
> that would hold all of the virtual machines? Cost is an issue on this
> project.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sean