Re: Laptop for Lots of VMs
- From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:03:10 -0600
I have a Dell XPS M1330 configured close to this. 8G RAM. With SSD. You
might be able to find one with an ESATA connecter that would help the
external drive speed.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Vishal Gupta <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I currently have a home desktop, which I used for running my all VMs on
> VmWare Server. It good enough configuration to run 3-4 or more VMs at the
> same time. I have two internal hard disks on desktop. To get decent enough
> performance from VMs, I tend to run VMs on separate disk than the host disk.
>
> But many times, I have left in situation where I don't have access to my
> small home virtual data centre. So I was looking for a powerful but
> lightweight laptop for this purpose. Ideally I would love to have VMs on
> separate disk. But laptop normally don't have enough room for 2 internal
> disks. And running VMs on external disk over USB2.0 (@480Mbps i.e. about 5
> times slower than eSATA drives) will give a dreaded performance. USB3.0
> (@5Gbps twice as fast as eSATA) would be good enough. But not many laptops
> support it yet.
>
> Does anyone has any laptop recommendation for this purpose? I had MacBook
> Pro with 8GB + SSD hard disk in mind. It would cost about £2000 (inc VAT) in
> UK. Does anyone has any experiences to share of using MacBookPro to run
> multiple VMs?
>
>
> *Desktop Configuration*
> CPU - Intel Core i7-920 (64bit) - single socket with 4 cores, 8 threads
> RAM - 6GB
> Disk - Two internal 750GB each SATA-300 (@2400Mbps) drives , 1 external 2TB
> eSATA (@2400Mbps) drive.
> Disk 1 - (internal) Host OS and other stuff
> Disk 2 - (internal) Reserved for running only VMs
> Disk 3 - (eSATA @2400Mbps ) Used
> Disk 4 - USB 2.0 (@
>
> Devices Speeds link -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths#Storage
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_i7#Processor_cores
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Vishal Gupta
> http://www.vishalgupta.com
>
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