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Is there any advantage to having more than 16 GB RAM on a Windows developer machine?

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Mar 15, 20266964 views
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Assuming a machine (Dual Quad Core Xeon (2.26 GHz) with 24 GB RAM) running Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. How many VMs can I expect to run at the same time with good performance? Is this overkill? Can you really have too much RAM? Assuming 2 GB per VM. That's around 16 GB for the VMs with 8 GB le…

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"I want to run about 8 VMs at one time using Hyper-V." Why on earth would you want to do such a thing? Since you are unlikely to be able to load ALL 8 concurrently during development (except, perhaps, for a brief load test) you can probably run all …

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