Vmware ESX implimentation plan

[sargana]

Dear All,

i want to know what is best implimentation plan. i need to deploy 30 vista virtual machine on vmware esx.

One Quad Core Xeon E5450 (3.00Ghz, 1333FSB), 48Gb RAM

my question is :

RAM per in each Virtual machine = ?

etc and good suggation?

Regards,

Sargana

[TomHowarth]

Welcome to the Forums

I have moved your post to the VDI forums as it is a more appropiate place for it.

minimum of 786mb per guest maybe 1Gb

single CPU

approximately 16GB system drive

make sure that you do not have any Serial or pararall ports assigned to the guest,

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Tom Howarth

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[Jae_Ellers]

I'd agree that is the way to do this. Without hearing more about it, VDI makes sense.

It should make even more sense in a couple days. Linked clones will reduce the actual storage needs down to changes from the base image.

Plan for discarding the VMs after each use. Use AD settings to persist the user data & profiles.

[Cameron2007]

I was involved in sizing VM guests recently so this post may be useful.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1095445#1095445

Hope this helps

[jguzmanr]

We are doing a vista VDI and vista is such a hog that it's 2GB of RAM and 2vcpu. let us know what you find.