Notice the drop, thats because one of my Hard Drives had some damaged sectors and ESXi wasn't marking them as bad on the fly, causing massive I/O and Error Rates, after yanking the drive it dropped massively and all VMs are running great now.VMware today launched Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Pro, the latest versions of its virtualization software for running Windows on a Mac without rebooting. Looks like I found a pretty big part of what was happening with the I/O problems too. No I wouldn't expect to run my enterprise VMs on it ) So about $5 a month to have it on running all the machines I need to run or play with.Īnd for the price you sure and the hell can not beat it for a home esxi solution or even a small business setup. Its been on for 366 hours and has drawn a total of 20.3KWH, so I pay like 12.5 cents per kwh so your looking at $2.50 to operate for 15 days. Allowed me to combine my file server and my router boxes into a tiny little thing - that looking currently at the killawatt meter its connected to is drawing 55.5 watts ) That is with 4 disks in it. It is more than capable of handling the number of VMs I would ever need to be running at the same time, and allow for many many more to be available when I need them for play or testing. The file server, the router and the linux box are on all the time. What I can dell you is it runs my router, and is running my file server, and my test box w7 and my linux distro. No **** ) But you can say that for any hardware - the number of VMs you can run at the same time is just going to vary. 'it would only take a number of VM's for it to choke.'

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