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New Build - VMWare

It's good to know that drivers are less of an issue in newer versions of ESXi. I'm still considering my options for the new build. Some of the memory saving features will make it possible to run more VMs, but ideally I want to avoid paging memory to disk and causing additional I/O pressure...
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- Post #16
- Apr 15, 2012
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New Build - VMWare

Thanks to everyone for the advice/info - it's been useful. I should probably invest some more time learning about the various virtualization technologies from the main vendors. :) I'm probably still going to invest in a higher spec desktop/workstation instead of splitting the budget between...
- Wiseman82
- Post #14
- Apr 13, 2012
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New Build - VMWare

I wasn't aware of the over commit and page sharing features. Does this work automatically on VMWAre Workstation 8? I don't feel the benefit of them on my current machine, but that's probably because I'm only able to allocate the minimum amount of memory to each VM so they are starved of...
- Wiseman82
- Post #11
- Apr 11, 2012
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New Build - VMWare

Sandy bridge-E typically gives you 8 DIMM slots. I would start out with 8GBx4 to give me 32GB and maybe add another 8GBx4 later if required to take me to 64GB. I think this is likely to be a cheaper solution with better performance than going for a lower-end server based product as I dont...
- Wiseman82
- Post #5
- Apr 10, 2012
- Forum: Computer Building
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New Build - VMWare

Hi, I work in IT as a DBA/System Admin and I'm looking to build a new home PC as my old PC is a few years old now. My current PC is a core2duo 6420 with 8GB ram - it's too slow and doesn't have enough memory. What will it be used for? Development, QA, self-training and general PC. Will be...
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- Apr 9, 2012
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SB-E C2 stepping on Jan. 20th (Rumor)

Thanks for the replies to my question. It sounds like I don't really need VT-d for what I'll be using virtualization for.
- Wiseman82
- Post #87
- Apr 2, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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SB-E C2 stepping on Jan. 20th (Rumor)

Hi, I might be looking at buying a 3820 shortly with an asus P9x79 pro? Does anyone know if VT-d will work with this setup? Also, I'm going to be using virtualization quite heavily. The main reason I'm looking at LGA2011 is the additional memory slots. I'll probably go with 4x8GB, so...
- Wiseman82
- Post #69
- Mar 23, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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SB-E C2 stepping on Jan. 20th (Rumor)

SB-E C2 stepping on Jan. 20th (Rumor)