joeman1881 Posted September 18, 2014 Report post Posted September 18, 2014 The scenario is that I have 1 - 2012R2 Virtual right now hosting: -FEP -WSUS -MP -DP -SQL This is the configuration that was recommended for our environment by Microsoft. Now that I am gaining a little experience, and knowledge around this system I am realizing it's just too much for one server in our environment. We currently have about 6,500 machines being managed, but in the next year or two should be up to around 10,000 machines. My plan was to create a second virtual server (on a new box with dual 10GB copper) to take over the DP, WSUS, and FEP and then maybe migrate my original virtual to the new server as well. I would then have both servers on the same physical box, and shouldn't have any bandwidth issues going forward. Side note: The new server is exactly the same build as the host that my SCCM server currently resides on, we just added the new NIC, and installed 2012r2 rather than 2008r2 for host OS. Questions: - Will I run into issues migrating the server using SCVMM to migrate my current server (while shut down) to the new box? If it's shut down, this shouldn't cause any issues with SQL correct? - Is there a better way to split the services in an enterprise my size? - Whats the best way to 'migrate' the services to the second, new VM? Thanks for your input in advance, -Joe Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeman1881 Posted September 22, 2014 Report post Posted September 22, 2014 Bump! Anyone have any advice? Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted September 22, 2014 Report post Posted September 22, 2014 Theoratically a stand-alone primary site should easily be able to manage 10k clients, even with everything on one box. But like with everything it all depends on the specs of the box and everything around. The easiest way to offload some roles, is simply creating a new server and offload some roles to that server. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeman1881 Posted September 22, 2014 Report post Posted September 22, 2014 Theoratically a stand-alone primary site should easily be able to manage 10k clients, even with everything on one box. But like with everything it all depends on the specs of the box and everything around. The easiest way to offload some roles, is simply creating a new server and offload some roles to that server. Thanks for the reply. Is there a common or best practice in place around splitting the services between two servers? Is there any reason I wouldn't want to split this the way I noted above? Thanks again! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted September 23, 2014 Report post Posted September 23, 2014 It probably will work to move the server when it's off... I would start by taking of the most intensive roles (or duplicating them), the DP, SUP and MP. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeman1881 Posted September 23, 2014 Report post Posted September 23, 2014 It probably will work to move the server when it's off... I would start by taking of the most intensive roles (or duplicating them), the DP, SUP and MP. Great, thanks for the advice. This helps a lot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
