Spec'ing a new workstation rig for my office
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Hard to imagine needing a Xeon for IT work. How many VMs do you plan to run and what do you intend to have them doing?
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yeah, I have an HP Elite i7 with 8 gb of ram. I dont run vms, that's what my server is for. and i dont need all that horsepower, neither do you
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I run on an ancient Phenom II X3 with 4GB and it is great for me. A little more power wouldn't be bad, but it boots in like six seconds and works really well.
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W7 VM for data recovery.
W7, Vista and XP VMs, also need XP to recover my Office Accounting 2007 data
VM to setup and check out Mint.
VM for a Virtual Lab for testing Server 2012r2 (Can you run VMs inside VMs with their own Vnetwork?)
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@technobabble said:
VM for a Virtual Lab for testing Server 2012r2 (Can you run VMs inside VMs with their own Vnetwork?)
yes but you really start hurting performance.
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@scottalanmiller Noted!
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sounds like you should just get a workstation (vanilla) and a esxi host.
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I recently dropped a SSD in my desktop and it now flies right along. I would go with this:
@Hubtech said:
sounds like you should just get a workstation (vanilla) and a esxi host.
I am still trying to get some gear for my office to have for testing. but no money for it and no used gear has fell in my lap yet.
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@JaredBusch said:
I recently dropped a SSD in my desktop and it now flies right along. I would go with this:
@Hubtech said:
sounds like you should just get a workstation (vanilla) and a esxi host.
I am still trying to get some gear for my office to have for testing. but no money for it and no used gear has fell in my lap yet.
Dude, I picked up some g5 dual quad xeon's for under 200 each. ebay bay bay
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@Hubtech said:
@JaredBusch said:
I recently dropped a SSD in my desktop and it now flies right along. I would go with this:
@Hubtech said:
sounds like you should just get a workstation (vanilla) and a esxi host.
I am still trying to get some gear for my office to have for testing. but no money for it and no used gear has fell in my lap yet.
Dude, I picked up some g5 dual quad xeon's for under 200 each. ebay bay bay
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If you're considering running multiple VMs on your computer rather than running them on a server, you're going to need more IOPS. Consider using an SSD for a system drive and perhaps some tiered storage, such as Windows Storage Spaces, for your VM and data volume.
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Thanks @alexntg
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Use SSD no matter what. Best investment for a desktop.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Use SSD no matter what. Best investment for a desktop.
The last SSD I used died a horrible death 2 months ago. It was less than a year old. Many times a day it would show 100% disk usage and my PC would come to a crawl. I am guessing that I just had a lemon.
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We've been essentially all in SSD for years now. Haven't lost one yet. No issues at all. They've been amazing.
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@technobabble said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Use SSD no matter what. Best investment for a desktop.
The last SSD I used died a horrible death 2 months ago. It was less than a year old. Many times a day it would show 100% disk usage and my PC would come to a crawl. I am guessing that I just had a lemon.
In that case, perhaps SSD system drive in RAID1
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SSD are okay in RAID 5 too.
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@scottalanmiller said:
SSD are okay in RAID 5 too.
RAID5 SSDs seem a bit overkill for a system drive.
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@alexntg
I was also looking to make my "desktop" a VM as well running on Hyper-V. I wanted to be able to test out backing up VM's and other cool stuff I read on ML. -
In that case, someone's prior suggestion of a basic workstation and an ESXi host would be the way to go. Don't use Hyper-V.
