Hi to all.
We have a small assisted living healthcare environment with about a dozen sites/servers.
One server has 3 VMw4 vms on it.
We received two new servers each with ESXi 5 installed. They will host several Windows server vms mostly migrations of current VMw4.
I want to install vCenter Server 5 to manage them.
From my VMware book by Lowe he mentions that the bundled SqlExp08 is fine for 5 hosts and 50 vms.
We will never have more than that probably.
However, the server I want to install vCSrv5 on already has installs of Sql05 and Sql08 in use by several other applications.
Those applications will be migrated to our new vms later on with their respective db.
My questions are:
1) Should I install vCSrv5 and use the bundled SqlExp08 and just let it go at that? If so should the db just be on another drive or should it be on another server?
2) Should I install using an instance of either Sql05 or Sql08 that is already installed?
I am not sure about the impacts later when I migrate the few apps that currently use Sql05/Sql08.
I am no DBA but a dedicated db would seem to be better.
Keep in mind that once our vms are installed vCSrv5 probably won't be doing much since most of the features are for large environments with many vms.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.