So, if I decided to buy a server tower with this motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131643
2 x this CPU (providing 16 cores):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113036
4 x this RAM (making 32GB):
http://www.ebuyer.com/319614-kingston-8gb-1333mhz-ddr3-ecc-cl9-dimm-kvr1333d3e9s-8g
and 2TB HDD with the VM's on, each machine should run smooth without any problems? Sorry to keep asking for further assurance, but I am concerned about getting optimum performance as in the past at work I had struggled to run 3 VM's on a quad core machine. Here's the spec of that machine and the setup I had:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz
8.00GB RAM
600GB HDD hosting the OS (Win7)
3TB HDD (hosting the VM's)
I had VMware Workstation installed on the host OS along with other programs like Excel, Windows Live Mail that would be constantly running. I'd have multiple web pages running also. The HDD with the VM's on, only contained these VM's and nothing else, but I could only just about run 3 of them. If I tried a 4th VM, they'd all slow down to an unbareable speed. The 3 on their own were running at a pretty unbareable speed as it were. Each VM had Win7 installed and was allocated 1GB of RAM. They typically only used about 500MB RAM in use, so it didn't seem like a RAM problem. The CPU usage would often spike up over 50% in use so I assume this may have been one of the problems. With 3 VM's running, but sitting idle, roughly 7GB of the 8GB of host RAM available was being used. Could this have been slowing things down?
Here is a link to a post I made on a forum where a forum member is suggesting that I would not be able to run 15 VM's on a tower server with a dual CPU system. Has anyone got any comments on this?
http://www.pchelpforum.com/xf/threads/computer-server-spec-advice.145873/