Home SharePoint test machine-Best sharing of resources between VMs

Hi guys!

After small discussion with Vlad Catrinescu regarding my question he advised me to create this discussion 🙂

I have my home desktop:

CPU: i7 3770k(4 cores 8 threads )

RAM: 32GB(1600MHZ)

HDD: 6xhdd in RAID0 (because of test- no need RAID10 or RAID5 –need the fastest one 🙂 )

I’m trying to build my test machine for learning.

I’d like to have :

2xWPE on MS Server 2008 R2

1xAPP(+Cluster Witness) on Server 2008 R2

2xSQL2012 (fail over cluster) on Server 2008 R2

1x Exchange 2013 on MS Server 2012

The questions are:

1.What is best practice to share my resources(RAM, CPU) between VMs.

2. What minimum resources I need to leave for Host OS MS Server 2008R2

All applications SharePoint2010, SQL2012, Exchange2013 and OS 2008/2012 are free trial evaluation 180days.

Leave your suggestions/ ideas….. 🙂

Thank you!