Hi,
For testing should be no problem. Besides than NIC, you also need to consider cpu & memory as well on the physical server and allocation to the guest VM.
For more info, please refer to step by step guide for RDS:- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2009/07/07/new-step-by-step-guides-available-for-remote-desktop-services.aspx?Redirected=true
Thank you for the reply. Well it would be more than testing, it would be permanent solution for the remote users. I already have one VM setup, I created a vdi hard disk then installed Windows 8.1 to it. I do have the Remote Desktop Services installed but it was during the setup process of creating a virtual desktop collection that I started thinking maybe this was more than what I needed. The Server Specs are
-ASUS P8B-M LGA 1155 Intel C204 Micro ATX Intel Xeon E3 Server Motherboard
-Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 69W Quad-Core Server Processor
-Kingston 32GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) ECC Unbuffered Server Memory
-Adaptec RAID 6405E 2271700-R 6Gb/s SATA/SAS 4 internal ports w/ 128MB cache memory Controller Card, Kit
-4 Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD5000HHTZ 500GB 10000 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard drive
- Antec High Current Pro HCP-750 750W TX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
hi,
May be you can refer to this deployment guide:- http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/1/8/618657D7-9D3F-42BD-89F8-8C8963F9EC91/Windows_Server_2012_VDI_Deployment_Guide.pdf. This document do talk about memory, cpu , bandwidth, etc.
Quad core & 32 GB of memory for 4 VMs should be no problem. With 2 NIC, (one for management and another for virtual switch) is just enough. It would be great if you can add till 4 NIC.
Besides, i notice the disk is using SATA. may be performance will be a slightly impacted.