Re: Laptop for Lots of VMs
- From: Fernando José Andrade <jotawolf@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:06:57 +0100
I agree with Martin, for me the best mobile solution is a hosted server and
a thin light laptop ( a macbook air 13" better).
For testing elastic and on demand elastic cloud like amazon or linode, for
permanent things a hosted server in ovh.es.
Pretty much the same price a year and a lot less pounds on the shoulder (
the medic bill when you get retired can count on this LOL ).
Regards
FJA
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Martin Bach
<development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> If money didn't matter I would buy a ThinkPad x201s with 8gb of memory. I
> think it comes with an esata port as well.
>
> Didn't see any laptop with more memory anywhere.
>
> I am using an alternative: a hosted server with a core i7 920, 1.5tb raid 1
> and 24g of memory. Accessible via ssh from pretty much everywhere and
> running opensuse 11.2 and a xen hypervisor. All for 89 euro per month :)
>
> Martin Bach
>
> Oracle Certified Master 10g
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> From: "Amaral, Rui" <Rui.Amaral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, Nov 24, 2010 17:16
> Subject: Laptop for Lots of VMs
> To: "'andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx'" <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>, "
> vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> 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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> ________________________________
> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Andrew Kerber
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> To: vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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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