I know we're talking laptops here, but I recently purchased a Dell R710 (I
think), with 96GB RAM, 10TB storage and, 2x4 CPU for around $750 (I think
3.00 GHz). My plan was/is to get it configured and install vSphere and
then be able to access it online from any lame'ish laptop.
I haven't gotten around to configure it, but that's a lot of VM power there
for all sorts of scenario's like GG, RAC, DR etc. My own home-based mini
cloud as it were.
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mohammed
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Martin Berger <martin.a.berger@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Jeff,
right now at work I use a Dell Latitude E7470. You can get this piece with
16GB ram and 512 GB SSD - which is quite fine for my Virtualbox playground.
8GB RAM will be fine for a single VM - as you might want to run 2-3 (DB
(maybe RAC), EM, ...) I'd don't go below 16G.
hth
Martin
2016-10-24 21:22 GMT+02:00 Jeff Chirco <backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hey looking for opinions, I am working on getting a new laptop from
work, my primary workstation is a desktop so the laptops are mostly a dumb
terminal to just remote desktop from. But I would like to use this laptop
as a sandbox and install Virtual Box and host a some VM’s with Oracle
database and EM to play with. I have not really done any work with
Virtual Box so I am just wondering if 8gb of RAM is good enough or should I
try to get 16gb. And I will try to get 256gb SSD.
Anybody have recommendations. Our company typically buys Dell
Latitude’s but I am looking at the Yoga 900.
Thanks,
Jeff
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