Hello Guys,
Quick question... i would like to create a test lab (windows 2012r2) at home. Do you believe that a Xeon W3503,3505 or W3520 with 16gb of ram or more will be sufficient for the project?
Thank you in advance
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Hello Guys,
Quick question... i would like to create a test lab (windows 2012r2) at home. Do you believe that a Xeon W3503,3505 or W3520 with 16gb of ram or more will be sufficient for the project?
Thank you in advance
Really depends on how many VMs you want to run on it. For comparison on my home machine I run a core i5-3570k with 16GB of ram, and I'm generally running 3/4 VMs all the time alongside using my machine for personal use, so it's certainly possible, as long as the CPU you're using has VT support (which I believe all three of those you mention do).
Perhaps the biggest difference you can make IMHO is the storage you're using. Using an SSD rather than HDD will make far more of an impact on how it performs. What I do at home is run the host OS plus the most used VM on my 250GB SSD and then the rest of the VMs run on a 1TB HDD, and that works quite well for lab purposes.
Really depends on how many VMs you want to run on it. For comparison on my home machine I run a core i5-3570k with 16GB of ram, and I'm generally running 3/4 VMs all the time alongside using my machine for personal use, so it's certainly possible, as long as the CPU you're using has VT support (which I believe all three of those you mention do).
Perhaps the biggest difference you can make IMHO is the storage you're using. Using an SSD rather than HDD will make far more of an impact on how it performs. What I do at home is run the host OS plus the most used VM on my 250GB SSD and then the rest of the VMs run on a 1TB HDD, and that works quite well for lab purposes.
Really depends on how many VMs you want to run on it. For comparison on my home machine I run a core i5-3570k with 16GB of ram, and I'm generally running 3/4 VMs all the time alongside using my machine for personal use, so it's certainly possible, as long as the CPU you're using has VT support (which I believe all three of those you mention do).
Perhaps the biggest difference you can make IMHO is the storage you're using. Using an SSD rather than HDD will make far more of an impact on how it performs. What I do at home is run the host OS plus the most used VM on my 250GB SSD and then the rest of the VMs run on a 1TB HDD, and that works quite well for lab purposes.
Really depends on how many VMs you want to run on it. For comparison on my home machine I run a core i5-3570k with 16GB of ram, and I'm generally running 3/4 VMs all the time alongside using my machine for personal use, so it's certainly possible, as long as the CPU you're using has VT support (which I believe all three of those you mention do).
Perhaps the biggest difference you can make IMHO is the storage you're using. Using an SSD rather than HDD will make far more of an impact on how it performs. What I do at home is run the host OS plus the most used VM on my 250GB SSD and then the rest of the VMs run on a 1TB HDD, and that works quite well for lab purposes.
Really depends on how many VMs you want to run on it. For comparison on my home machine I run a core i5-3570k with 16GB of ram, and I'm generally running 3/4 VMs all the time alongside using my machine for personal use, so it's certainly possible, as long as the CPU you're using has VT support (which I believe all three of those you mention do).
Perhaps the biggest difference you can make IMHO is the storage you're using. Using an SSD rather than HDD will make far more of an impact on how it performs. What I do at home is run the host OS plus the most used VM on my 250GB SSD and then the rest of the VMs run on a 1TB HDD, and that works quite well for lab purposes.
Really depends on how many VMs you want to run on it. For comparison on my home machine I run a core i5-3570k with 16GB of ram, and I'm generally running 3/4 VMs all the time alongside using my machine for personal use, so it's certainly possible, as long as the CPU you're using has VT support (which I believe all three of those you mention do).
Perhaps the biggest difference you can make IMHO is the storage you're using. Using an SSD rather than HDD will make far more of an impact on how it performs. What I do at home is run the host OS plus the most used VM on my 250GB SSD and then the rest of the VMs run on a 1TB HDD, and that works quite well for lab purposes.
Really depends on how many VMs you want to run on it. For comparison on my home machine I run a core i5-3570k with 16GB of ram, and I'm generally running 3/4 VMs all the time alongside using my machine for personal use, so it's certainly possible, as long as the CPU you're using has VT support (which I believe all three of those you mention do).
Perhaps the biggest difference you can make IMHO is the storage you're using. Using an SSD rather than HDD will make far more of an impact on how it performs. What I do at home is run the host OS plus the most used VM on my 250GB SSD and then the rest of the VMs run on a 1TB HDD, and that works quite well for lab purposes.
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