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 Principal DBA, Ora!nternals - <http://www.orainternals.com> http://www.orainternals.com - Specialists in Performance, Recovery and EBS11i Blog: <http://orainternals.wordpress.com> http://orainternals.wordpress.com OakTable member <http://www.oaktable.com> http://www.oaktable.com Co-author: "Expert Oracle practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table" <http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430226680> http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430226680 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/> http://www.masterschema.com/2009/10/oracle-rac-11g-r2-installation-how-to-in-vmware-and-iscsi/ Ron Quoting FreeLists Mailing List Manager < <mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: oracle-l Digest Thu, 25 Nov 2010 Volume: 07 Issue: 338 In This Issue: Re: Laptop for Lots of VMs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Laptop for Lots of VMs From: Martin Berger < <mailto:martin.a.berger@xxxxxxxxx> martin.a.berger@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- <//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l