I have a 13" macbook pro 4gb of ram, 2.26Ghz.
So im trying to upgrade my MCSA/MCSE to 2008, so i would need to run few VM's, at least 3 2008, and few clients.. You guys think ill be fine using my laptop or i should buy a desktop with around 8gb of ram?
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As in running 3 VM's simultaneously? I think you'd be better off with a desktop for that. But you can try!
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I'll recommend Parallel Desktop 5.0
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I use Fusion with Server 2008 and an xp client, works fine with 4GB, your hard drive may chug a bit though; just don't give them more ram than you can get away with.... 768MB for Server 2008, 512MB W7/Vista, 512mb XP. Obv, if you're doing loads on the server, can up that to 1GB easily or a bit more.
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running 3 instances of S-2008 ... go find a desktop
Primary server, RDP server and a file server plus atleast 3-5 clients. If you want to go nuts 5 servers and 15 clients
and good luck to you on upgrading, I just finished a few months ago ( I got delayed as staff seem to take training priority ) -
so def buy a system?
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IMO, a desktop or a real high end Clevo or AW machine.. and go with ATLEAST 8 GB of RAM if you dont plan on spanning projects over multiple machines.
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just ordered a system with a E5300 cpu, 6gb of ram, 750gb of HD.. Ill probably order 2x4gb out of new egg so ill have 12gb on it
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should do you nicely, and good luck to you, its a crapload of work but very rewarding
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thanks
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masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook
so we're talkin' like 6 operating systems with a unix host...
depending on how severely you want them to chug, i'd say it's time to get a desktop.
you have 2 cores, split between a host OS and 6 clients... so if everything worked 100%, you have 800mhz core solo processors on all your operating systems...
of course, there is overhead in the virtualization- so it might act more like 400 mhz core solos running each OS. plus, you have one hard drive managing interaction between all the operating systems... and 500 MB of ram / OS...
they will be hanging up a lot. windows server 2k8r2 wants 1.4ghz by itself and 512 MB of memory, minimum. i smell trouble.
for this type of application, it's time to invest in a quad core CPU at least, possibly 2 quad cores.
at least 8 GB of memory
multiple hard drives, keep only 1 or 2 virtual OS files on each HDD.
that is the only way to get 6+ OSes running at the same time without everything coming to a halt. When I ran 3 OSes in vmware (4 total including OS X) - there was no mistaking it. That is with 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo and 4 GB of memory. a 2.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo isn't going to make enough of a difference to save you. go quad or 8 core.
good luck
VMware Fusion
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Supermiguel, Mar 16, 2010.