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I am also sticking with 4GB RAM until
the prices for 8GB modules drop. In my newer systems, that allows for a 48GB
base but, unfortunately, no expansion without replacement.
Laurence
From: Ryan M. Finn
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Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 8:37
AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] How much
memory in your VM hosts?
At the time we
bought our hosts, I felt that the cost to jump from 32GB to 64GB was way too
high for the limited benefit it would provide. I added hosts to our setup
instead. Right now, we are running five hosts with 32GB and dual Xeon
E5450s. What I’ve been doing is, anytime we need to buy a new
system for something outside our virtual environment that will probably be
virtualized in the future, setting up the system as close as practical to what
I would want in our virtual setup, so that the hardware can be reclaimed as an
additional host with little to no additional cost.
Ryan M. Finn
Microsoft Network
Administrator
Division of
Residential and Hospitality Services
Information Services
Department
517.355.4637
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Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:08
PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MSUNAG] How much memory
in your VM hosts?
I am seeing huge memory price increases
as you scale up in amount (4gb dell dimms are about $42/gb whereas 8gb
dell dimms are $120/gb). So I am just currious how much memory you use in
your virtual hosts and how many hosts you have?
Right now we have 2 with 32gb each, at
the rate of the price slope, I could almost add a whole new node to the cluster
w/32gb for around 8K (or 2 nodes w/32gb for 16K) rather than upgrading both
existing nodes to 64gb for 14K.
Yikes!
Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
Windows Systems Administrator
Department of Physics and Astronomy
1209 A Biomed Phys Sci
517-884-5469