October 28, 201312 yr As the title says, i'm a complete newbie to the world of virtualisation. My system comprises of a norco 4220 case , Intel Xeon E3-1240V3, Supermicro X10SLM+-F, two ibm m1015's and 16gb of memory. 36tb of hard drives spread over 16 drives (some on motherboards sata ports), I have two 2.5 drives available, 1 for booting hypervisor software (320GB) and a 1TB unit for 'data stores' I'm hoping to be able to run unraid (obviously) preferably with cache dirs enabled , a linux instance to run plugins that are currently on my unraid box (sab,CP,Headphones and SB), windoze 7 instance for sql and hopefully a second linux instance for tv recording with usb based tuner cards, and on my wish list would be pfsense (not overly important though as i have a dedicated box for that at present) I'm a bit confused with virtualisation i.e. allocating cores and memory etc... , am i limited to the number of VM's by the number of cores and or memory my system has ? can i run more VM's than i have cores (i.e.. can VM's share cores) i'm thinking of xenserver as it seems a little less complicated than esxi.
October 28, 201312 yr You are not limited by cpu as the system will handle the distribution, but if you do run more vms than you have cpu you might see loos in performance. This however rarely an issue. You are however limited by your ram as that is most often the bottle neck for number of vm you can run at the same time. Most important mak email sure your hardware is compartible with virtualization technology you will use and that it 100% supports virtualuzation as in vt-d for intell and/or iommu for amd. Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk
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