Putting together a machine for vmware

[TechBoyJK]

I am putting together a machine to be used to develop a webapp.

I want to run the following vm's

pfsense - 256MB - 6GB
Openfiler NAS- 256MB - 4GB
Windows 2003 Webserver - 500MB - 6GB
Windows 2003 Webserver - 500MB - 6GB
Windows 2003 Standard - 500MB - 7GB

I could use one the following machines

Dual 3Ghz Xeon (with HyperT) and 2GB of ddr266 and (2) 36GB 10K SCSI
Single 3Ghz P4 (with HyperT) and 4GB of DDR400 and (2) 36GB 10K SCSI

These vm's won't be in production, so I just need them to have the bare minimum ram and cpu to perform and be snappy when I work on them (just hosting files).

What machine should I use?

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
Putting together a machine for vmware

Dual 3Ghz Xeon (with HyperT) and 2GB of ddr266 and (2) 36GB 10K SCSI
Single 3Ghz P4 (with HyperT) and 4GB of DDR400 and (2) 36GB 10K SCSI

What machine should I use?

This is a trick question, right?

 

[TechBoyJK]

No... Well, the machines are already built, I just have to choose one to use.

I'm thinking the single CPU P4 might be better because I can have twice the ram and its faster ram too. I don't suspect any of the vm's to be doing anything cpu intensive.

 

[funkymatt]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
No... Well, the machines are already built, I just have to choose one to use.

I'm thinking the single CPU P4 might be better because I can have twice the ram and its faster ram too. I don't suspect any of the vm's to be doing anything cpu intensive.

what's stopping youy from snagging the 4GB ram from the p4 and putting in the xeon board?

 

[CalvinHobbes]

I would upgrade the ram in the Xeon system and use that.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: funkymatt

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
No... Well, the machines are already built, I just have to choose one to use.

I'm thinking the single CPU P4 might be better because I can have twice the ram and its faster ram too. I don't suspect any of the vm's to be doing anything cpu intensive.

what's stopping youy from snagging the 4GB ram from the p4 and putting in the xeon board?

the xeon requires registered ecc... and I only have 4x512MB chips of that.

 

[Blain]

Sell the P4 machine and buy some server memory on ebay.