Hey all, "first time long time".
I am researching configurations for my groups laptop deployment.
-Little activity within host OS (Win7 64-bit), most of the days are spent within two VM's (Win7 64-bit) running at the same time.
-One VM is for the corporate "stuff" including email, office, SAP, etc (4GB RAM allocated)
-One VM runs apps for software development (4GB RAM allocated)
-Dell E6530, i7, 16GB RAM
-One OEM HDD supplied with laptop
-One SSD to be purchased
-Disk Caddy to put 2nd drive in optical bay
-The "software development" VM would take priority over the "Corporate" VM if I had to choose which would perform the best.
Given the information above, would it be better to have the SSD in the main drive bay (host/OS) or the drive caddy (VM disks)?
If we are running two VMs simultaneously, would it be best if they were both on the 2nd drive or one on each?
Initially I was thinking that it would be better to use the SSD as the host / OS, and then the VM's on the HDD in the drive caddy.
But I don't care as much about host boot time vs VM performance and figured two VMs on one HDD would not be best as their virtual disks would both have to share the HDD.
Now I am thinking HDD for the host and SSD in the optical bay with both VMs.
Thoughts / Comments?
Thanks for the input.