Re: Re Laptop for Lots of VMs

Riyaj,

Thanks for sharing your MBP experience. 

Regards,
Vishal

On 29 Nov 2010, at 17:06, "Riyaj Shamsudeen" <riyaj.shamsudeen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



        Vishal
          >>Coming back to my original question, does anyone run lot of VMs on  
MacBook pro? Does it perform well enough?
        
           Yes, I do. I have 8GB Macbook Pro with 2 RAC clusters. One is Linux 
cluster and another is Solaris x86 clusters. Each 2 node cluster, and I use 
iSCSI, which is a third smaller VM. I have not started all 6 VMs concurrently 
but With three VMs running, I don't see much performance issues. I am in the 
process of adding third node to these clusters at this point.
        
           Only issue I see is that before you alter MAC to sleep mode, you 
need to suspend VMs in a specific order (RAC VMs and then iSCSI VM). Otherwise, 
MAC doesn't come back from sleep mode properly. I didn't really troubleshoot, 
just observed it..
        
         
        Cheers
        
        Riyaj Shamsudeen
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        On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Ron Chennells < 
<mailto:ron.chennells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ron.chennells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
        

                You may find this of interest
                
                
<http://www.masterschema.com/2009/10/oracle-rac-11g-r2-installation-how-to-in-vmware-and-iscsi/>
 
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                Ron
                
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                        Subject: Re: Laptop for Lots of VMs
                        From: Martin Berger < 
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                        Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:15:52 +0100
                        
                        Yes,
                        MacbookPro 13" here.
                        can hold up to 8GB memory.
                        Virtualbox is quite fine - it can do everything I need 
(probably more).
                        
                        by default, the VMs reside on an external Disk attached 
with  FireWire (quite more expensive, but faster and more stable in terms  of 
IO than USB2)
                        
                        What is 'lot of' ? ;-)
                        
                        hth
                         Martin
                        
                        
                        Am 24.11.2010 um 21:24 schrieb Vishal Gupta:
                        
                        

                                Thanks for the responses so far.
                                
                                ...
                                Coming back to my original question, does 
anyone run lot of VMs on  MacBook pro? Does it perform well enough?
                                
                                Regards,
                                Vishal
                                




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