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From: Neil Jones on 15 Apr 2010 01:18
Hello,

At work we found an old Dell PowerEdge server with 4GB of RAM and 2x70
GB disks. I want to install several Windows VMs for testing purposes.
I know Windows on a stand alone system wants 1+ GB of RAM. My questions
now are:

1. How many Windows VMs can I run simutaneously on this hardware?

2. How much memory should I allocate to the Windows VM during creation?
Windows will say minimum 2GB for W2K3 Server. Is that how much memory
I got to allocate for the VM as well?

3. For a $3K budget, what Dell server would be ideal for a ESX server
that will last for couple of years? (Planning on having 48GB or 64GB
memory).

Thank you in advance for any help/advice.

NJ
From: Stan Bischof on 17 Apr 2010 20:59
In comp.os.linux.misc Neil Jones <nj(a)dev.null> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At work we found an old Dell PowerEdge server with 4GB of RAM and 2x70
> GB disks. I want to install several Windows VMs for testing purposes.
> I know Windows on a stand alone system wants 1+ GB of RAM. My questions
> now are:
>
> 1. How many Windows VMs can I run simutaneously on this hardware?
>

1 maybe 2.

> 2. How much memory should I allocate to the Windows VM during creation?
> Windows will say minimum 2GB for W2K3 Server. Is that how much memory
> I got to allocate for the VM as well?
>

You've only got 4 GB, so you can't allocate much as you need to save
some for the host OS.

> 3. For a $3K budget, what Dell server would be ideal for a ESX server
> that will last for couple of years? (Planning on having 48GB or 64GB
> memory).
>

You can't buy a modern server-class machine from ANY vendor
that would make a decent ESX server- or would even have that
much RAM for anything even in the vicinity of 3k. You _might_
find a used machine somewhere in that price range, but nothing new.

Stan
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