New Build for Home Lab

[agm_105]

Hello all,

I am looking forward to build a home virtualization lab.The total no of VM's i intend to run is close to 10-15 vm's simultaneously.Being on tight budget i have chalked out below config. Does this look good ?

PC-1
Component
Asus Kgpe-d16 - Motherboard - Ssi Eeb 3.61 - Socket G34 - Amd Sr5690/sp5100
Eight-Core AMD Opteron™ 6320
or
Twelve-Core AMD Opteron™ 6344
Kingston 32GB Kit* (4x8GB) - DDR3 1600MHz( KVR16R11D4K4/32 )
Intel SSD 520 240GB (6Gbps)SF-2281 MLC
Seagate 2TB 64MB C 7200 RPM Constellation ES
CORSAIR Professional Series AX850
Lian Li PC - A70F Full Tower Chassis


PC-2
SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AMD 990FX(AM3+) /BIOSTAR TA970 AM3+ AMD 970 /ASRock 990FX Extreme9 AM3+ AMD 990FX
AMD FX 8350
Intel SSD 520 240GB (6Gbps)SF-2281 MLC
Seagate 2TB 64MB C 7200 RPM Constellation ES
CORSAIR Professional Series AX850
NZXT Crafted Series Guardian 921 RB Blue LED USB 3.0

 

[jay2tall]

If you are intending to run a number of VM's you are going to want cores, RAM, and disk space to allocate. I'd take the 12 core and 32GB of RAM.