Hello all!
Very glad to have found Proxmox, as I was indecisive between XenServer and VMWare for the past little while.
Currently, I have a home server that consists of mostly desktop-grade parts. It's running Fedora 14 and (Amahi.org) management software for all its functionality.
My intention is to make this single host box a virtual host with Proxmox and rebuild my Fedora server and a few others as virtuals.
Regarding resources, currently the machine is:
- AMD dual-core Athlon2 X64 CPU
- 8 GB RAM
- all SATA HDDs:
--2x WD Green (5900RPM) 1.5TB & 2TB;
--2x WD Blue (7200RPM) 1TB;
-- a system drive.. WD Raptor (7200RPM) 74GB
- single on-board Gb NIC
How many fully virtualized VMs will I see able to run on this box? I've no issue with adding more power or storage.
I'd like to fit:
- 2x Fedora VMs
- 3x Windows Server 2008 VMs
- 3x various other Linux VMs
Is this doable, or crazy?? I'm new to the amount of resources required for this.
I'm guessing the bottleneck will be the single NIC and the hard drives.
Note that first thing upon rebuilding is a 8-core CPU and 16GB of RAM however.
So? thoughts?
Very glad to have found Proxmox, as I was indecisive between XenServer and VMWare for the past little while.
Currently, I have a home server that consists of mostly desktop-grade parts. It's running Fedora 14 and (Amahi.org) management software for all its functionality.
My intention is to make this single host box a virtual host with Proxmox and rebuild my Fedora server and a few others as virtuals.
Regarding resources, currently the machine is:
- AMD dual-core Athlon2 X64 CPU
- 8 GB RAM
- all SATA HDDs:
--2x WD Green (5900RPM) 1.5TB & 2TB;
--2x WD Blue (7200RPM) 1TB;
-- a system drive.. WD Raptor (7200RPM) 74GB
- single on-board Gb NIC
How many fully virtualized VMs will I see able to run on this box? I've no issue with adding more power or storage.
I'd like to fit:
- 2x Fedora VMs
- 3x Windows Server 2008 VMs
- 3x various other Linux VMs
Is this doable, or crazy?? I'm new to the amount of resources required for this.
I'm guessing the bottleneck will be the single NIC and the hard drives.
Note that first thing upon rebuilding is a 8-core CPU and 16GB of RAM however.
So? thoughts?