Hi All,
I plan on building a home desktop to dual purpose as a development esxi server sometime this year.
To cut down on physical space requirements and to simplify a lot of other overhead relating to having a 2nd PC solely to be a VM server, I plan to run ESXi on a VM on Windows, likely on an 8-16c Ryzen or Threadripper if need be.
I'm not after raw performance. I just need something to develop on. Will be having a few VMs - each to mimic my production setup at work wherein I have a few (3-4) machines 'talking' to each other (databases are relatively smallish, 80GB-300GB max). The VMs with databases will probably have their own SSD/HDD.
My question is - how bad will performance be assuming I allocate enough cores and memory to the virtualbox VM and to the ESXi guests?
Thanks!
I plan on building a home desktop to dual purpose as a development esxi server sometime this year.
To cut down on physical space requirements and to simplify a lot of other overhead relating to having a 2nd PC solely to be a VM server, I plan to run ESXi on a VM on Windows, likely on an 8-16c Ryzen or Threadripper if need be.
I'm not after raw performance. I just need something to develop on. Will be having a few VMs - each to mimic my production setup at work wherein I have a few (3-4) machines 'talking' to each other (databases are relatively smallish, 80GB-300GB max). The VMs with databases will probably have their own SSD/HDD.
My question is - how bad will performance be assuming I allocate enough cores and memory to the virtualbox VM and to the ESXi guests?
Thanks!