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Many of you have seen my travel with my Yoga 2 Pro laptop and a Gigabyte Brix running Hyper-V with 16GB of RAM and a 240GB msata drive. I use these rigs for demos when traveling and they also provide me with a test domain network. But lately I've started feeling some constraints. Even though I run the VMs lean and often use server core, I can't run as many VMs simultaneously as I would like or at the level they really need.<\/p>\n

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My current Yoga 2 and Brix setup with a Netgear switch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For example, I'm trying to do a bit more with System Center which requires SQL Server, another product I'm delving into more as well, and those servers really need a bit more in terms of resources. I would also like to re-introduce a WSUS server, Sharepoint and Exchange 2013. By my preliminary estimates I need a minimum of 36GB total memory spread among multiple Hyper-V servers. Plenty of disk space as well but that seems to be easy to address. I also want a second Hyper-V server so I can do more with migrations and replications.<\/p>\n

So I've been considering what I could build to add to my existing setup. I am hoping to have a solution that gives me at least 32GB of RAM to divvy up. My initial thought was to add one or two more Brix <\/a>units. I could build a new 5th gen i7 with 16GB RAM and a 500GB Samsung EVO drive for about $878. If I double up my investment is $1756. That's not too bad.<\/p>\n

I considered going the laptop route, perhaps by adding a new Lenovo what supports 32GB of RAM. That seems to start pushing the price up.<\/p>\n

I'm also considering making a quantum leap of sorts into a server class motherboard like the Supermicro X10SDV-F-O Intel Xeon D-1540<\/a>. Pricy for sure, but I could start with 32GB of RAM for around $300 and there is lots of room for storage. I've spec'd out a build at just around $2000. What I like is that I can cram everything into a mini-ITX form factor.<\/p>\n

I'm finding plenty of pros and cons for all my options and haven't made a final decisions yet. I'm certainly open to suggestions and feedback.\u00a0 I realize whatever route I go will entail some packing changes should I need to travel with everything. My backpack is getting a bit heavy as it is already. But I'll deal with that when the time comes.<\/p>\n

For now I'll have to decide which investment makes the best long term sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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