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    • Gennady
    • Posted on Sat 19 Jun 2010 01:42 PM

    With all the VM's that you're planning on having, I hope you've thought about preventing data loss? At a minimum getting another drive and mirroring the two?

    Also, you may want to look at using a baremetal VM system like ESXi (which is free) and installing your VMs in to it (you'll of course need to convert your VMs to the VMWare format - but there's a nice converter utility they provide). Once the ESXi environment is setup, you don't even need a monitor to it. Instead you could use the multiple monitor setup (or whatever you like) with your laptop of choice and using their remote management GUI you can add new VMs, modify existing, and see/manage their screens or setup RDP in them -- in which case you can then setup a development environment VM and then don't need a beefy laptop on which you can just RDP in to the development environment.

    I've setup such an environment using a i7 quad core wth 24GB ram and 2 1.5TB drives mirrored. I have 15 VMs in there of different environments all running at the same time and 3 development VM's running XP (I find it faster than Windows 7) and then RDP via a laptop to them.

    I've even setup my router to support OpenVPN and VPN in to this environment when I'm away to do all the work.

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