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1) Yes, quite easy on a modern box but to be on the safe side I would recommend 16GB Ram in the system.

2) A modern dual quad core Xeon with 16Gb RAM and decent raid should handle this very easily. You could proably get away with single cpu quad core with 8Gb RAM.

3) All have different IPs.

4) Not entirely sure I unserstand this question. Are you talking about additional client VMs?

5) It is more of a RAM requirement per VM prediction, add together you predictions for each VM and round up to the near 4Gb would be my recommendation.

If your server load is light (Probably is with only 10 users) then Vurtualization of the servers is a good idea. Virtualization of the desktops though may not be a good idea, will probably be slower and annoy people. For fast restore of desktop hard disks there are many imaging programs and PXE based network loaders that would be better suited than Xen.

Rob Sent: 13 January 2009 07:48
To: Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] New to XEN

I’m new to Xen and virtualization. We are a small business, with up to 10 users. In order to reduce our TCO, I’m thinking on installing virtual machines to cut down costs and maintenance.

c. MS Windows 2003/2008 Application Server (Autocad 2008, MS Office 2007, Outlook 2007, A windows based ERP, Adobe CS, other graphical applications)

d. MS Windows 2003/2008 Virtual Desktop or Terminal Server (Maybe this should be the same as the previous one)

3) One ISA2006 Firewall with 3 Net cards (WAN, Intranet and Print Network). I want two separate networks, one for users one for print, scan and fax hardware.

4) One Print, Scan and Fax SMS Windows 2003/2008 Server, attached to the Print, Scan Fax Network.

1) Is it possible to run 4 to 5 VM on 1 Server, Remember all are Windows 2003 or 2008 Servers?

4) Can I install one Server with several MS Windows XP WM per user? 10 to 15 MS WXP VM? Can each machine have a different IP address?

5) Since there is going to be a big memory usage with the graphical applications, how much RAM is required per user?

The main thing is to have all users working with dumb terminals (Thin Clients), that can be up and running with minimum hardware requirements. This brings down the time consuming operatios of having to reinstall each of the user’s PC, when we have breakdowns.

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RE: [Xen-users] New to XEN