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March 23rd, 2018 11:00
Suitable Optiplex or Precision for running several Windows 10 VM's?
Hi all. I'm looking to purchase an Optiplex or Precision workstation that can comfortably run 3-4 Windows 10 Pro VM's (VMware Workstation Pro) on top of Ubuntu. I imagine a good deal of RAM and large SSD is important but I'm not sure on what processor would be best (cores, etc.). The VM's need to be "capable". Not for photo editing or anything too crazy but they need to be able to run moderately intensive software without any slow downs. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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March 23rd, 2018 11:00
Neither would be an ESX server Like a Dell R730, That can house 24 cores on 2 cpus and 1.5 terabytes of ram.
Where each 32 gig dimm alone costs $700 each.
http://www.dell.com/ed/business/p/poweredge-r730/pd
Up to 16 x 2.5” HDD: SAS, SATA, Near-line SAS SSD: SAS, SATA
Support for high availability clustering and virtualization
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March 23rd, 2018 12:00
I remember having a similar setup to that at my last job - but that was for hosting two full-on Windows servers. However due to space requirements I'd prefer not to go with a server. I've run two VM's fairly successfully in the past along side my operating system (on whatever computer I had at the time so I don't remember the processor type). It would also be far easier/preferable to use an Ubuntu gui rather than using a full-on backend hypervisor. Considering we're looking at only a handful of VM's I can't imagine it isn't doable on a decent workstation. Money isn't a huge concern and each VM would need no more than 100GB drives. Any advice on processors (Dell offerings) for what I'm looking to do? Thanks.