[THIN] Re: OT - VM sizing for testing
- From: "Brian Ehlert" <brian.ehlert@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:43:58 -0700
Please then Joe, (you are thinking exactly as I was).
What is your take on a small, medium, or large virtual disk?
(consider theat they must be large enough to be considered usable)
I will even entertain two classes: Servers, and VDI targets (I am
sure you all understand what I mean)
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And that is what I am trying to say. You can easily get away with a 10 gig
> drive for Windows XP but it will be way too small for Vista. Then you have
> to consider what's going to be installed? Office? Applications like the
> Adobe CS3 suite or Visual Suites can chew up a lot of disk space really
> fast.
>
> Joe
>
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> Thanks for the clarification Joe.
>
> However, I am specifically considering the size of the virtual hard
> disk in this exercise.
>
> And a few different hosting platforms.
>
> I am not focusing on the performance of the VM itself - a bit different
> angle.
>
> (You will all be putting the pieces together soon enough ;-) )
>
> However, if you care to share your experience - I can always add
> configurations to my matrix for other uses.
> I am always trying to find legitimate and 'real world' configuration
> examples to ground things.
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