[TriLUG] Need opinions for specs of a VM box

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I forgot to mention, for HDD space, I have 5x 750gb SATA drives.

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Warren Myers
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:11 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Need opinions for specs of a VM box

Are you planning to run Xen, or VMware Server?

I'm familiar with the latter, so I'd suggest the following:
For each VM, you'll need 20-40G hard drive space. For each one you want to run simultaneously, plan on 512-1024M RAM each.

For a linux host, you'll also want another 512-1024M RAM.

And you're going to want some beefy underlying CPU: minimum 2.0Ghz dual core if you're going to run more than one VM at a time.

WMM

On 7/26/07, wayy2be <wayy2be at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>   I am wanting to purchase a desktop for my home that will be able to 
> handle running 4 or more VM's so that I can set up a network and do labs.
> Which route would be the best to go in terms of ram, hd space etc. I 
> need help with the specs.  Thanks,
>
>   Rob
>
>
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