I am sure this is the wrong place to post this question, but I can't dind where else to ask it. SO please advise me where I should ask it.
I have a customer who is currently operating 3 physical servers, 1 Windows Server 2003 operating as a Domain Controller, a Windows 2008 Server also operating as a Domain Controller.
Additionally there is another Windows 2008 Server that is running as a file server and it hosts, using Hyper-V another Windows 2008 Server. So there are a total of 4 server instances on 3 physical servers.
I would like to reconfigure the 2 newer physical servers to be VMWare ESXi servers, each hosting 2 server instances. I would like to set this up with external DASD (maybe a Synology NAS) so that in the event of a failure of a physical server, all 4 server instances could operate on on physical computer.
This is a small business so costs have to be kept under control. Since I have all the appropriate server licenses for the 4 server instances, what VMWare licenses would I need to do this and where can I find good advice on developing a robust system?
I have experience running ESXi 5.5 on a couple of servers.
Thanks for any input.