Hey everyone - I am going to be settingup 5-10 VMs (Various dekstop and server OSs.. only 2-3 VMs will be running at any given time) via the Vmware Server Console from Windows XP Pro. I am trying to decided on which disk\storage option would be best performing and ideal for storing my VMDK files.
The Dell desktop that will be running the console is a 3.4ghz P4 with 3GB of RAM (DDR2 400mhz). The board only has two SATA-150 ports (which I am already using for the XP install and music\photos) and has no PCI-Express slots.
Option 1:
Buy a SATAII PCI (Promise has one now) card and one 500GB SATAII HDD
Option 2:
Buy an external USB 2.0 500GB drive
Option 3:
Go cheap with SATA-150 or ATA\133 (Is there that much of a difference with VM performance)?
Any other suggesstions?
Thanks!
2007-01-01 12:34:13 · 5 answers · asked by jjdurrant 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I'd go for option 3. I really doubt you'll notice much difference between SATA and SATAIII but then again, it depends what exactly you'll be doing on those VMs.
Also i'd go for a second drive to mirror the 1st.
2007-01-01 12:40:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Instead of buying the PCI card and one 500 GB drive, consider buying a RAID PCI card and 2(two) 250 GB drives, then setting up a RAID 0 (stripe).
I did this for running virtual machines. Buying 2(two) 250 GB drives was actually $100 cheaper than buying the 500 GB, and performance was much higher. SATA and PCI RAID cards can be found pretty cheap - http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=CCD .
SATA has a little better performance than IDE, and IDE will have a little better performance than USB 2.0.
2007-01-01 13:33:15 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-25 21:15:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to have a lot of RAM, not just hard disk speed. Probably along the lines of 4GB. Virtual machines run in RAM.
2007-01-01 12:38:12 · answer #4 · answered by Shawn H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy the internal HDD. Never go cheap, you'll be angry with yourself in the long run.
2007-01-01 12:37:53 · answer #5 · answered by .PANiC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋