The timfleas have been setting up a new hosted application design for our eventengine product. To help us complete the setup for our servers, we put together a template design in visio. If you are building your own proposal for a virtualized architecture you may wish to use the template to inform your high level logical design. The .VSD download file is availible here, feel free to edit and re-use:
VMware Visio Template (1465)The basic restraint we had on our design was having to make use of existing servers which were mixed brand Dell and HP, which is not ideal. However without Vmware HA switched on and with a shared ISCSI SAN hard disk pool we can use the current hardware solution and still provided a flexible and expandable platform.
Our most significant cost was the VMware licences which need to be planned well so that you achieve a clear saving on TCO compared to a hardware only solution. Our ideal platform would be HP blade based but cost and existing hardware restraints did not make the investment a viable option.
Thanks to the VIOPS web site for the Vmware icons and stencils used in this Visio 2003 VSD file. Link here: http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1338
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