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Virtual Machine storage config

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Slackusr

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Hi,

I am building a new workstation based on a Supermicro H8DCi motherboard and dual Opteron 275s. The machine will have 8GB RAM, and I plan to run 64 bit Vista Ultimate as the OS. I will be using VMWare Workstation 6.5 for VM duties.

I will be running 4 to 6 VMs (need to thin the herd in my sig a bit). My question is should I dedicate small, individual hard drives to store the virtual hard drives for each VMs or will a single 1TB hard drive used for VM drive storage give me better performance? Thanks.
 
What are you expecting out of the VM's? I can run 8 VM's and Vista 64bit with 0 issues with my T7400 at work and my VM's sit on a 2-500GB RAID1 set. I get pretty damn good performance out of all of them working at the same time. So again, what are you looking to do with your VM's?

My setup - 4 servers running Server 2003 with 1GB each and 1 of those servers is running SQL 2005 with 2GB. 4 Client VM's with 386MB each. All have 10GB drives with the exception of the DB with 20GB.
 
Yea what are you going to be doing with them and what kind of performance are you expecting? Also do those CPU's have virtualization support? You dont need it but it sure makes things faster.

Considering my VM's have mostly static data....Domain Controller, Firewall, and some testing VM's I dont need high throughput or IOPS cause im not running a SQL server or doing HD video. So I just wanted fast response and went and grabbed two cheap SSD's and it works fine for what I do.
 
Well my VMs won't be doing much heavy lifting. They will mostly be various Linux distros, OpenSolaris, or whatever OS I feel like tinkering with. I am just going to go the most cost efficient route at this time. Based on my usage it doesn't sound like I need to be too concerned with performance.

I am pretty sure that 275s(socket 940) don't have virtualization support built-in, but I am getting the system for a fairly low cost so that won't bother me too much. Thanks for the info.
 
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