What is the best thing to do with my servers and clusters

[snagrat]

So I have 8 servers in a blade.

 

6 are identical in spec and the other 2 are slightly different.

 

Currently I have them setup as 4 Failover clusters but am wondering if this is best?

 

Should I just have one big cluster of all 8 servers?

 

What do people think?

[Blue_Cookeh]

What are their roles at the moment?

[snagrat]

Just HyperV clusters hosting all VMs.

[PotNoodleTech]

The whole point of a cluster is that a host can failover to another host in the cluster with no fuss. I don't really see the point of creating more than one cluster and running them along side each other?

 

So yes, I would have one big cluster with you're 8 hosts as members. The different specs only mater if the spec of the lesser server can not run all of the VMS due to RAM/CPU limitations, e.g. you have 20VMs that use 80GB ram and two of you're hosts only have 24GB ram - then you could potentially have a problem (even though it's unlikely that all VMs would need to run at the same time on the weak hosts, it could theoretically happen).

[snagrat]

All hosts have 64GB ram but in total all the VMs will use more than that.

 

Like you said though realistically they won't all be down at the same time