I have some question as to how i will install my solarwinds applications. So i have NPM, NTA, NCM, IPAM, Server + App Monitor, VNQM, and Additional Orion Polling Engine. I have 2 IBM X3650M2 each with 4 core intel processors and 32GB of memory. Then i have an HP MSA 2000 with 24 300GB SAS 15k drives.
Both IBM servers have 2 HBA connections which I used to directly attached to the MSA and also tested and confirmed multipathing works. This is the RAID config for the drives:
C:= OS and SQL Server, 2 drives RAID 1
E: = main data files, 6 drives RAID 10
F: = main log files, 3 drives RAID 0
G: = temporary data files, 6
drives RAID 10
H: = temporary log files, 3 drives RAID 0
The first IBM is going to be my main polling engine and the second IBM is going to my sql server. So my additional polling engine will be its own VM. So my question is where do i put my NTA, NCM, IPAM, VNQM, and Server + Application Monitor. Do i put them on the main polling engine or serperate them. And will is load-balance like as far as the web console. Because I read somewhere that you shouldn't put the web console on the main polling engine.