[dba-Tech] Ram Usage

Hello All,

I was reading about the VMWare vSphere free version this morning.  If VM are
market leaders, and this product is free, is it any good?

I appears to be able to do a bare metal installation and may even allow some
form of dynamic ram usage, so you can configure 4 VM with 4 GB each, and
still load all four in a machine with 12 GB (approx) of physical ram.

Is that the way to go?

I did you Win 8 HyperV before, but I have to assume a light weight bare
metal VM software is a better option ?

thanks
Mark


On 15 September 2011 06:39, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:

> VirtualBox
>
> --
> Stuart
>
> On 14 Sep 2011 at 22:11, Rocky Smolin wrote:
>
> > What vm software do you use?
> >
> > R
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
> > McLachlan Sent: September 14, 2011 9:08 PM To: Discussion of Hardware
> > and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Ram Usage
> >
> > The primary reason my next laptop (soon I think) is going to be Win64
> > with 8GB is to run multiple VMs.
> >
> > --
> > Stuart
> >
> > On 14 Sep 2011 at 20:52, Bill Patten wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Rocky,
> > >
> > > Want to see it used?  Install a couple of Virtual Machines. I could
> > > only run one at time when I had 4G, now with 8G I can run 2 VM's.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------
> > > From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:58 PM
> > > To: "List" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>; "'Off Topic'"
> > > <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com>
> > > Subject: [dba-Tech] Ram Usage
> > >
> > > My new super-comp has 8GB RAM.
> > >
> > > The CPU Usage gadget which shows all 8 cores and their usage also
> > > show RAM being used.  It rarely goes over 2GB - usually hovers
> > > around 1.6. Do I have 6GB RAM that I don't need?  Or is the gadget
> > > not telling me something.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > Rocky
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