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Re: [LUG] File and Programme Servers

 

This is important to remember. The virtual machines are all sharing the
same CPU, memory bandwidth, network bandwidth, disk bandwidth, etc of
the actual machine.

True, but it's not as bad as it sounds. In reality, not all of these services will be in full use at all times, so each service is allocated resources from a central pool. Obviously, this pool should have enough resources to hand out at peak usage periods, but generally speaking, it will minimize the amount of idle resources you have at any given moment. The impression I got from the original post was that the whole system doesn't have a particularly high load, so it shouldn't be too hard to meet the requirements.

It is definitely worth having a hard look at what peoples usage patterns are if you're going this route though.
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