How Powerful A Server To Purchase

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Firstly: We are quite a new MS Server 2003 network, comprising of

around 10k users, and 40 ish servers.

 

We urgently need to look at virtualisation, and I have noticed that

Microsoft Systems Centre 2007 comprises a few products which we are

very eager to use;

 

 

Softgrid (For virtual applications)

System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (for virtual servers)

Systems Centre Operations Manager (for monitoring server health)

 

 

Im totally unable to identify what server requirments are for the

actualy System Centre installation.

 

 

Would I be correct in thinking that I need a dedicated server for

System Centre 2007 with operations manager, vm manager and softgrid?

Or one server for System Centre on its own, plus one for operations

manager, one for VM Manager etc?

 

 

I obviously understand that I'll need dedicated servers to host

virtual machines.... but Im totally unsure about what sort of server

I

should be pricing up to host Systems Centre 2007.

 

 

We generally go with Dell for servers, so I just need an idea of what

sort of power we need.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

David Hamer.