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!
To change motherboard+CPU could cost me 800$+
The main issue is ram for SQL?
Take a look at http://www.expta.com/2013/04/updated-blistering-fast-hyper-v-2012.html. I’d say your host should be Server 2012 (Hyper-V Server or Standard/Data Center).
Exchange can get by with very little RAM (say 4GB). SharePoint I would give 4GB/ea. SQL I would give 4GB/ea, and your witness 512MB – 1GB. SharePoint will be slow, but it is the only way to fit all of your VMs in 32GB. You could also instead look at getting a motherboard that supports 64GB RAM. There are a few for the Core i7 series out there.
