On 10/5/2013 10:29 AM, Arthur Williams wrote:
> SSD is way too expensive to waste on VM storage. XE4 by itself takes what, 30GB ? Plus another 20GB for say Win 7. I just built a cheap box (~$900), x2500 cpu with 32GB ram and I run Server 2008 R2 on it with the Hypervisor to run my VMs. Who only has a couple of VMs ? I've got about twenty of them on there. Just stick in a cheap 2TB drive and you don't have to worry about having to be stingy with the drive space.

Depends on what you use it for but i would disagree for development VMs.
 IMHO SSD investment for OS + VM's was one of the better ones i ever made.

On my desktop i'm running 2TB drives in Raid10 and moving OS + VMs to
the SSD made both of them as well as VM way snappier for regular use -
and i use these VMs 8 hours a day. We're talking ~$100 here.

Same experience on laptop. Both cases systems have enough ram (16 in
both cases) and i7 quad core CPUs so disk was the bottleneck.

Raul