[Cialug] OT Developer productivity - was: Which software to use for a SAN

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com> wrote:

> Depending on load the VM setup could actually be faster than any desktop
> they could reasonably have, since you're running on hardware that's natively
> much faster -- a HS22 blade is not a slow machine and it's unlikely that
> everyone is going to have 2x Xeon-5600 workstations connected to a Fibre SAN
> at their desk.
>
> Obviously if everyone hits compile at the same time, or if there are enough
> VMs that memory/etc. is limited that will not be true, but if peak usage is
> non-simultanious and each VM has enough resources the VM setup could be
> faster for the short bursts of intensive use you're talking about.
>

What about display refreshing? As I'm picturing this in my mind I think of
something like Terminal Server which often don't have quite as fast of a
display update as my desktop.

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