I'm looking to set up a small datacenter configuration and I'm looking for opinions good or bad.
Basically it will be a datacenter with just one 2 node cluster with ESX 4.1 on the servers, vCenter, vMotion, etc.
Servers - 2 Dell PowerEdge 1950 III
Dual 2.66Ghz dual core Zeon processors with 4MB cache
8GB Memory,
2 73GB 15K drives (RAID 1)
2 Onboard Nics (1 GBit)
Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 (Dual 1 GBit with iSCSI)
Datastore - QNAP TS-259 Pro+
1TB(2 x 1000GB - RAID 1) 2-bay 2.5" & 3.5" SATA NAS Server w / Built-in iSCSI Target Service
Datastore switch - Netgear GS108T-200NAS
8x 10/100/1000 Mbps auto sensing Gigabit
IEEE802.3ad Link Aggregation (manual or LACP)
- Both servers will have identical hardware and configuration
- Around 6 Windows 2008 and 2003 VMs will run on the datastore
- One of the VMs will be used as the vCenter server
- I'll be running vMotion, HA, DRS, and DPM
- 1 onboard nic will be used for service console and VMs
- 1 onboard nic will be used for vMotion network (can I simply connect both servers with a crossover network cable?)
- Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 will be used for iSCSI connection with Link Aggregation to the datastore all connected with the Netgear GS108T-200NAS switch (both servers connected to the switch, and then from the switch connected to the datastore)
Please give your opinions on this set up. I realize it's not the most optimal configuration. But it's meant to be as cheap as possible, yet functional.