RE: Laptop for Lots of VMs
- From: "Amaral, Rui" <Rui.Amaral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx'" <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>, "vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:16:32 -0500
I have a couple of Toshiba's Qosmio X500 with 64bit.
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en§ion=1&group=1&product=9652&part=10970#spectop
the spec says 1 tb hard drive but mine is 1.5TB on 2 disks.
eSATA combo port
Rui Amaral
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Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 12:03 PM
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Subject: Re: Laptop for Lots of VMs
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<mailto: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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