Need help with Hardware Requirements for 3 vm servers . Using newest vmware hypervisor esxi
Physical Hardware Requirements for servers
Server 1 (N-central)= Intel xeon 55xx and 6gb memory, 160gb HD (think this is a little over kill, we are running this on a 5yr old server with xeon X3210 2.13ghz now with no issues)
Server 2 (N-compass)= Dual core and 4gb of memory, 150gb HD
Server 3(Connectwise)= Dual core and 8gb of memory, 300gb HD
Also need recommendations on Hard drives and configuration, I just plan on using 2 tb's and creating a hardware mirror (I know I am going to get bashed for this, but its what I have always done and been burned by Raid5 before) but very interested in other ideas.
I am thinking I can get by with following
High end quad core processor (not sure which one yet) and assign 2 cores to Server 1 (n-central), 1 to Server 2 (n-compass) and 1 to Server 3 (connectwise)
32 gb of memory
4 1 tb drives (2 mirrors)
Look forward to your comments and ideas
THANKS!!