ZeZe Posted November 16, 2015 Report post Posted November 16, 2015 Hi all I need to buy a new computer... nothing special, BUT... My goal here is to run System Center tools on virtual machines - for demonstration to customers and testing/developing skills. Therefore I was wondering if someone has that experience, running virtual machines on your laptops with SSD disks and if YES, is it external or internal disk? Your inputs will be very important, since the goal here is to understand the hardware performance with real experience. Let me know your experience and how many VMs you can run at once without compromise performance of the host. Thank you all in advanced! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarthMJ Posted November 16, 2015 Report post Posted November 16, 2015 You need lots of RAM and SSD are really nice to for this type of thing. But honestly why not use VPN or Direct access to access a real lab? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZe Posted November 16, 2015 Report post Posted November 16, 2015 You need lots of RAM and SSD are really nice to for this type of thing. But honestly why not use VPN or Direct access to access a real lab? Good point! Sometimes it's not possible to have lab environments... Don't ask why... sometimes ain't that simple! I'm looking for Macbook Pro! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted November 17, 2015 Report post Posted November 17, 2015 i'd get a powerful laptop instead with several SSD's attached, much cheaper and more effective my home lab is running 24/7 and is quite simply a Dell laptop with a modular bay containing a 500GB SSD and an external 1TB SSD attached in addition to another 500GB SSD attached. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZe Posted November 17, 2015 Report post Posted November 17, 2015 i'd get a powerful laptop instead with several SSD's attached, much cheaper and more effective my home lab is running 24/7 and is quite simply a Dell laptop with a modular bay containing a 500GB SSD and an external 1TB SSD attached in addition to another 500GB SSD attached. How many VMs can you run? Because I'm a photographer, I'm going for the apple macbook. I read that is recommended to use external ssd to run vm's, due to the fact they write-read a lot of information on the disks and low the disk life-cycle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZe Posted November 17, 2015 Report post Posted November 17, 2015 How many VMs can you run? Because I'm a photographer, I'm going for the apple macbook. I read that is recommended to use external ssd to run vm's, due to the fact they write-read a lot of information on the disks and low the disk life-cycle. And also, Quad-core or Duo-Core laptop? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarthMJ Posted November 17, 2015 Report post Posted November 17, 2015 The answer is always going to be it depends.. for a CM Lab you will need. 1 VM for your DC 1 VM for your CM12 server 1 VM for your test client This means, you really need ~13 GB of RAM just for your VMs. if you can give 1 core to each VM that should be enough. As with any lab the bigger the better. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
