I have imported all the critical VM's over with 0 issues. I only have like 3 left that aren't that big of a deal. Then I'm wiping my VMWare Host and rebuilding it from scratch and then taking my Synology NAS and redoing it's storage.
I've never considered they wouldn't replace, say a bad motherboard, if you installed 3rd party RAM in it. Though considering this discussion now, I suppose they could try.
If they can find a way to blame it on the RAM, you bet.
Well don't go purchasing the $200 1TB ram kit, and you should be fine...
Get something reputable and with warranty of its own and generally you're OKAY.
HOw does cheap RAM burn out other components?
I was just using it as an example of crap hardware being purchased for the purposes of saving a few bucks.
Would using a cheap power supply have been a better example?
Are cheap power supplies commonly an issue with other components? I guess they might be. I don't hear about that happening.
They certainly can be. If a cheap power supply provides non clean power to say the mobo, it can kill it, and everything else.
One of my predecessors here was cheap, as in horribly, by the cheapest thing I can find on the internet cheap. The power supplies that came with the computers he ordered claimed to be 400W units. I think they were one of the brands that caught fire when tomshardware.com tested cheap power supplies.
If you're asking if you can host a Win 7 (though why not Win 10?) VM on XenServer - yes you can. Now the question is, what licensing do you need?
If you have Software Assurance for the laptop you gave the CFO, then you need nothing more. If not, you'll need a VDI license for her, something like $125/year.
Yes, going that path takes you down the dark road of one off VDI.
