wmmayms Posted July 21, 2010 Report post Posted July 21, 2010 At the moment im running a standalone VMware vSphere 4.0 (ESXi 4.0) whitebox with the followings specs: Chassie/Motherboard: Asus Vintage V3-P5G33 Barbone Chassie with the P5K-VM Motherboard CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2,4GHz Socket 775 Memory: 8Gb Kingston DDR2 Nic: Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter Disk1: Western Digital Caviar Black 32Mb 500Gb Disk2: Samsung SpinPoint F1 32Mb 1Tb This allows to host around 12 virtual machines (depending on memory ussage) and is great for testing diffrent scenarios. My main bottleneck is my harddrives. The next time i setup a new server i will try to implement a raid configuration to improve speed. Next server will also feature a CPU with HT functionality (a quad cpu will act like if it has 8 cores) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted July 21, 2010 Report post Posted July 21, 2010 well well you are spoiled ! i've two main labs, one at home which is an old Dell Optiplex Gx620, 4gb ram, 1TB hdd running server 2008 and (wait for it) windows Virtual Server 2005 sp1... (the cpu is too old to run hyperv, and yes hyperv is what I choose to use, I use vmware at work) a lof of the guides here were done on that machine (one ad, one sccm, one appv, one scom2007, various other vms) my portable lab is a Dell Latitude D630, 4gb ram (trying to upgrade to 8gb), 325gb hdd in two bits, or rather two stages (two separate hdds) on one hdd I have server 2008 running hyperv with several vm's, use this hard disc for demoing anything SCCM related like xp to windows 7 migrations etc on the other hdd I'm setting up a vnext lab again with hyperv running in server 2008 R2, more on that lab later that's what I have, I would like to have better specs if i could afford it but currently no can do, cheers niall Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted July 21, 2010 Report post Posted July 21, 2010 I am running a Windows Server 2008 R2 box with Hyper-V and the following specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2,4GHz Socket 775 Memory: 8Gb Kingston HyperX DDR2 Nic: Onboard + External Disk1: 2x Samsung SpinPoint 320Gb (Mirrored) Disk2: External Western Digital My Book Mirror 1Tb And indeed with me the harddisks are slowing it down too... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamitupya Posted July 22, 2010 Report post Posted July 22, 2010 oh god...i shouldn't post this stuff, i'll look like a show-off 8 x Fujitsu RX300's vSphere4 Dual / Quad Core Xeons 2.4 26 GB RAM Dual iSCSI HBA 4 Port Intel Pro 1000 4 x Fujitsu RX600's HYPER-V R2 Quad / Quad Core Xeon 2.2 16GB RAM Dual iSCSI HBA 4 Port Intel Pro 1000 Dual Intel 10Gbe FNIC Eternus 2000 iSCSI Storage 22TB at any one time 100-200 VM's atm 136.... (alot of POC stuff) my biggest bottle neck is getting time to tinker..... and obviously i didn't by this kit ;-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Posted May 23, 2012 Report post Posted May 23, 2012 Kind of late to post but here's my new labs running Hyper-V for SCCM 2012/MDT 2012. Dell Optiplex 780 16GB RAM Intel 520 SSD 240GB - Primary for OS and VMs WD 500GB Enterprise - storage Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted May 23, 2012 Report post Posted May 23, 2012 how do you find the performance of that Dell., is it ok ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Posted May 23, 2012 Report post Posted May 23, 2012 I just use the latest and greatest we have in our company. Whenever they order new stuff I allocate a few for my labs. I talked to our Dell rep and she said there's a new model the 7010 coming out in June so this is already 2 product cycles old now. If you're still using the 620s you'll see a big benefit and even more if you get the Intel SSDs or wait for their new models and get that. I don't benchmark or anything but they run fine for what I need it for. These have Core 2 Duo processors. Not sure if there's a difference between that and I5 or I7. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prajwal Desai Posted August 29, 2012 Report post Posted August 29, 2012 Home PC : 8 GB DDR3 Corsair RAM 2 GB DDR5 Graphics Card 1 TB Seagate Hard Disk AMD 6 Core Processor. 100 GB - OS, Rest of the Hard Disk has several partitions for ISO Images, Virtual Machines, Softwares etc. Primary OS - Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 x64 Vmware Workstation for Lab Purpose. Laptop(Corp): Dell Latitude e6220. 8 GB DDR3, Intel core i7, 250 GB Hard Disk along with 1 TB seagate external Drive. Primary OS - Windows 8 Enterprise x64 Vmware workstation for lab purpose. Laptop (Personal): Acer laptop, 2 GB DD3 RAM, 750 GB hard disk. Primary OS - Windows 7 ent SP1 x64. I use this only for OS,Software deploying purpose. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oneone Posted August 29, 2012 Report post Posted August 29, 2012 Runnig our lab with Server 2012 and all the clients on Hyper V.3 Dont have the HW specs here atm will update later! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
