Re: VM Host Hardware Recommendations.

I did leave it open. An example of me not be sure of anything.

I plan to have just me using it as a dev environment. Perhaps one guest
would run occasionally as an externally viewable web server - if things hit
the fan.

Thanks for the ideas.

G

On 23 July 2011 11:59, Brad Barnett <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Garth,
>
> You're leaving the conditions a bit open here.  That is, only you can
> know how heavily taxed a system will be.  How much CPU you will use, how
> much I/O (disk, network) bandwidth.
>
> You haven't really filled that information in for us.  For example, will
> 10 people, 100 people, or one person, be using that initial development
> environment?
>
> However, that said, if you want to go cheap.. then just go to a place
> like PC Cyber and build your own PC.  Stick with a quality brand like
> ASUS, and make sure the motherboard has Intel chipsets for FSB, etc.
> You'll pay 20% more, but that 20% is well worth what you get.
>
> Don't be swayed with comments about bargain brand motherboards and
> things like VIA chipsets.  ASUS, while imperfect like every other
> entity on the planet, has built a quality name for itself, and that
> extra pricing does show up in build quality.
>
> Intel is intel.
>
> Over the years I've had so many issues with VIA, SiS and other chipsets
> -- that comparatively, Intel is absolutely godlike.
>
> Don't even get me started on NICs.
>
> Make sure you have lots of ram.  Ram is relatively cheap, and nothing
> will kill your day, like a machine swapping to death.  If you don't want
> to spend too much on ram now, make sure to get large sized DIMMs, so
> you'd have plenty of free space to use later.
>
> That is, don't fill all your ram slots.
>
> Buy a core for each VM, since we have no other metric to measure usage.
> If you think you'll only be using a max of 4 VMs, a quad-core i5 or i7 is
> probably just fine -- and the best price point versus power.
>
> However, again -- it is very hard to know what you are going to need,
> without have a very detailed idea of what CPU / ram / i/o usage you will
> have.  Heck, Garth, you may be fine with a 5 year old CPU, depending on
> how you use your VMs.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:30:48 -0400
> Garth Boyd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I do _not_ know that latest and greatest and esoteric things about
> > hardware. So I am looking for advice on building a VM host.
> >
> > The host, and guest OSes would be linux. The role of the guest OSes
> > would be Plone based python development. In some cases the guest OSes
> > would be running images for training purposes. So a running image would
> > be production and other images would be test and development.
> >
> > What would your opinion be for what is required today for a decent VM
> > host without breaking the bank (or perhaps bottom dollar)?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > - Garth
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