May 3, 2014
Re: Workstation 10, Fusion Pro and Player Plus - Need a little advise from VMware community before I buy
Hello VMware community!
I need a little advise and feedback and hope someone in the VMware community can help.
And, thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and give your help and feedback.
I have some questions about Workstation 10, Fusion Pro and Player Plus and hope I can get some
feedback and the answers I need before I buy.
I have a great workstation - HP z800 fully loaded and just purchased a new 1TB SSD and 4TB SSHD
plus external drives for backup etc. to expand the performance of my work, personal and everyday use.
I now have a total of 22TB plus of combined drive space.
Based on my work projects which requires the use of graphic design, software testing, and media video
editing - I need more than one OS. I like my dual booting and don't want to change that platform.. so while
I was looking for more options on using multiple OS's on my WS PC, I came across OVM VirtualBox and
I liked what I saw.. and then I discovered VMware and I really liked what I saw. Based on all the research
and data I gathered on VMware - I am sold! It seems like great stuff! If it can work for me as I need it, that
would be great! I would also recommend it to my partner for our business.
However, my main concern is I don't want to lose anyPERFORMANCE on my Workstation PC, because obviously
any kind of VM environment may take away some, or a lot of performance vs having an OS directly installed on
any drive. Which brings me to ask, should I just get all 3 software products - Workstation 10, Fusion Pro and
Player Plus? Because if this helps - great! Note: I don't mind losing some performance on the VM OS's, but I
don't want to lose any performance on my Main OS SSD. This is what I would like to know.
*Also, I don't want to give up having my Dual / Multi-boot OS's on my current system. I would like to install and use
Workstation 10 and the other VMware software on my 3rd, 2TB drive and on my 4th, 4TB drive. This is where
I get a bit confused on how this will work, unless the VMware community can advise and let me know the
best options available.. so I can use my Dual Multi-boot Win7/Win 8/Linux along with Workstation 10 and
the other VMware software on my 3rd and 4th drives. It would be most appreciated and helpful to know
the best way to go about this.
Please keep in mind, my work requires high performance on my PC, and because I also like my gaming world,
I don't want to sacrifice performance on my main SSD. I rather just keep my dual Multi-boot as is on my OS's,
if the dual-Multi-boot with Workstation 10 and the other VMware software doesn't work for me. I hope it does.
Also, below are my current Workstation PC Specs - I believe my current system specs can work well with WS 10
and the other VMware software, but I need to do this with dual Multi-boot and have Workstation 10 on my 3rd drive -
again, this is where it gets confusing. Hopefully I will find the answers I need from this VMware community post,
and by giving my current specs to get the best answers and options available for my kind of computer system.
My Current System Specs:
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HP z800 Workstation
Intel® Xeon® Processor W5580 4Core/8Threads
(8M Cache, 3.20 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel® QPI)
32GB Ram (16GBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR3 PC3-12800 memory mod
Video Graphic Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 690
Controller/Storage: Marvell 88SE9230 - Hybrid Sata 6Gb/s x2 PCIe Generation 2
and usb 3.0 and 2.0 combos throughout
2 PCIe x8 Gen2, 1 PCIe x4 Gen2, 1 PCIe x4 Gen1, 1 PCI
2 PCIe x16 Gen2 Slots
Four (4) Hard Drive Bays (8TB Total)
1) 1TB SSD
2) 1TB WD VelociRaptor
3) 2TB Seagate SSHD
4) 4TB Seagate SSHD
1110W Power Supply
OS's Win7/Win8/Linux - Multi-Boot System
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Let me know your thoughts and feedback, and if my current system would work well with
Workstation 10, Fusion Pro and Player Plus. Again, Your feedback and any advise on
this would be very much appreciated. Thank you for taking the time.
Best,
JP
New York, NY USA