Hi
I am setting up lab at home for my VCP exam, I have 2 Dell Poweredge T310 servers which came with 4gb ram on each and i have really hard time finding perfect RAM for these servers. i have tried differnet brand and types as suggested by Dell Specs but none of them have worked. If i had to buy from Dell atleast to make the servers having 8gb on each its costing me more than $500 which i don't know if its worth it to spend.
Please suggest if 4GB on each system is good enough for my Home lab. I have quad-core desktop with 8gb ram for VC.
I am fed up looking for RAM at differnet places so i am thinking if 4gb on each server is good enogh then i will keep the servers if not planning to sell and buy a Desktop with atleast 16gb ram so i can have vmware workstation installed and use it .
Please suggest , thanks in advance.
-Masti
I believe the CLark Dale series is the new family of Intel procs - so I will bet your procs are the Lynnfield family but Dell is pretty good at being able to provide that information based off of the service tage from your servers -
For a lab to learn vSphere 4 GB should be fine - being a labe you are not as conserned about performance but more learing how to setup aand work with VMware -
Would the same lab with 4gb is also good for vsphere 5 and VCAP in future ?
It would - the only concern I would have is the suppport for older hardware in vSphere 5
Currently my servers has this
One Quad-core Intel® Xeon® 3400 series processor
4gb ram
2 250gb HDD
5 PCIe G2 slots
on-board dual NIC
Do you think these wont support ? is there a place where i can check if these servers would support Vsphere 5 or not , if they dont then i better sell it and have a desktop later when i am ready for vsphere 5 i can look for something which support.
Whats your suggestion on this ? sorry to ask too many questions as i am setting up lab for first time so not aware of all these .
-Masti
from the compatibility guide i could see these systems listed , How would i know if my system is ClarkDale Series or Lynnfield Series ?
DELL | PowerEdge T310 | Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series |
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DELL | PowerEdge T310 | Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series |
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DELL | PowerEdge T310 | Intel Xeon 34xx Lynnfield Series |
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I believe the CLark Dale series is the new family of Intel procs - so I will bet your procs are the Lynnfield family but Dell is pretty good at being able to provide that information based off of the service tage from your servers -
would with 4gb ram on each and with these 2 servers would i be able to prepare for VCAP exam also ? or i would need better hardware for performance and to test and work .. what are your thoughts ...
It should be - your lab will give you a platform to gain the necessary experience for the VCAP DCA - the VCAP DCD (design) is a little trickier in that it is not interacting with the vSPhere Envrionment but more understanding what the best practices and to how to design a vSphere environment -