Hello,
I am currently running VMware on my gaming PC:
i5 4690k
24GB of ram
250GB ssd samsung 850 evo
(other hardware i think does not matter much but here it is
xfx 750w TS
asus Maximus VII Ranger
I have 8 VMs running currently and i am looking to expand to about 20 VMs total.
All VMs are running windows 8 and they have chrome browsers running on them with users browsing. Chromes are running some extensions which can be CPU hungry at the times.
None of the VMs host databases or anything performance hungry like that.
I currently have it set to each VM uses 1 core and 2-3GBs of ram and i am hitting 100% CPU usage at the times, but most of the time CPU usage is about ~50-60%. My current CPU is overclocked to 3.85GHz.
I would like to build home server and move all VM's from my gaming PC on to it.
CPU - what are CPU suggestions? I need something which will scale good. If we put it in simple language it need something which can put out the power of x3 i5 4690k. I am guessing that i need a CPU which supports a lot of threads?
Do i need a xeon (like: Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2620 v3 (15M Cache, 2.40 GHz) Specifications) or would a higher end i7 do the work?
Motherboard - i do not think i really need server grade mobo? All i need is something durable (needs to be running 24/7) and needs to allow enough ram (i guess non server mobos allow tops 64GB)
Ram - type?
Storage - Is ssd a must? i am currently using it, but would HDD make too much different for my usage? my VMs do not do much reading/writing other than normal OS/browser tasks.
Any other tips?
I am currently running VMware on my gaming PC:
i5 4690k
24GB of ram
250GB ssd samsung 850 evo
(other hardware i think does not matter much but here it is
xfx 750w TS
asus Maximus VII Ranger
I have 8 VMs running currently and i am looking to expand to about 20 VMs total.
All VMs are running windows 8 and they have chrome browsers running on them with users browsing. Chromes are running some extensions which can be CPU hungry at the times.
None of the VMs host databases or anything performance hungry like that.
I currently have it set to each VM uses 1 core and 2-3GBs of ram and i am hitting 100% CPU usage at the times, but most of the time CPU usage is about ~50-60%. My current CPU is overclocked to 3.85GHz.
I would like to build home server and move all VM's from my gaming PC on to it.
CPU - what are CPU suggestions? I need something which will scale good. If we put it in simple language it need something which can put out the power of x3 i5 4690k. I am guessing that i need a CPU which supports a lot of threads?
Do i need a xeon (like: Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2620 v3 (15M Cache, 2.40 GHz) Specifications) or would a higher end i7 do the work?
Motherboard - i do not think i really need server grade mobo? All i need is something durable (needs to be running 24/7) and needs to allow enough ram (i guess non server mobos allow tops 64GB)
Ram - type?
Storage - Is ssd a must? i am currently using it, but would HDD make too much different for my usage? my VMs do not do much reading/writing other than normal OS/browser tasks.
Any other tips?