Mixing Infrastructure and Research Systems in VMware ESX

[David Carver <David.Carver () OLIN EDU>]

Hi Folks,

We have an established single-cluster VMware ESX environment which is home to numerous production infrastructure 
servers. We're looking at the possibility of virtualizing several faculty research systems on campus which we do not 
currently manage.

Does anybody have any experience in mixing both infrastructure and research systems in the same ESX cluster? I'm aware 
at a high level of our technical options (i.e., setting up separate resource pools and limiting user access), but I'm 
interested in knowing if there are any specific security concerns we should be aware of, what impact this has had on 
your overall VMware environment, and what kinds of general policies / guidelines / restrictions you've put in place.

Thanks,
Dave

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David Carver
Systems Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering