I am new in this community, so please advise as per your experience

We are deploying the Opmanager, Device Expert, Netflow (With Add-on), Please recommend as per the best practice, We have almost 1000 Devices with Server & Switches , almost 300 interfaces for netflow 

Use Physical or Virtual Box ?

Shall i install all the components on one Server ?

Use SQL SERVER OR Built-in Database(MySQL) ?

 

Regards & Thanks

Adnan