Looking for a suitable combination of my PC where I'll run 8-10 VM.

imsilsa26112 · Nov 2, 2017

Hey guys... I want to buy a new PC. Mainly to run multiple VMware on that, also not more than 8-10 VM. I am willing to get Intel processors. I am very confused in between i7 and i5. Forget it, can I have some suggestions what processor+motherboard+memory combination Will be better for me. Thanks in advanced.

kanewolf · Nov 2, 2017

What are the VMs doing? Ten VMs is 20 to 40GB RAM to give them sufficient resources. So 32GB or 64GB RAM for the base system. For ten VMs, an i7 or Ryzen are going to be the best choice.

What is your budget?

USAFRet · Nov 3, 2017

imsilsa26112 :

Depending on the specific OS in the VM, this is at least 2-4GB RAM for each, as a minimum. More if it is any server OS.
So 8-10 simultaneous VM's = up to 40GB just for those.
A little overhead, and you need at least 64GB RAM for the whole thing.

On my system, 4 x VM + host taxes the 32GB RAM in this box.

So what, exactly, will these things be doing?

Rdslw · Nov 20, 2017

Consider using DOCKER as it's less taxing that VM.
You will need at least 2 GB of ram per VM and 1 CPU, so for 10 VM's
2 for OS and 10x2GB for machines == 24 GB ram at least.
1 CPU for host, 1 for each VM + 15% VM overhead = ~13 THREAD CPU = i7 8700 (non-K!) as you need vPro tech,
or RYZEN 1700 or better.

something like this:
https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/tcv6Mp/enthusiast-amd-ryzen-gaming-build
is what you want, but you can skip GPU and get more ram for the price.

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