Comments on: Running a VM from a RAM Disk

By: Dmitri

Dmitri — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:14:17 +0000

An equally interesting question – for me, at least – is whether we shall one day get the capability of running RAM-specific OS builds such as Windows PE with all the trappings of a ‘conventional’ Windows OS, i.e., with working .Net and whatnot. The reason I’m curious is that, given a server board with 96Gb of RAM, I can easily see myself requiring NO disk storage whatsoever.

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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:01:39 +0000

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By: vinf

vinf — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:17:55 +0000

I haven’t gotten into the tweaking and more detailed performance analysis yet; but I would assume there is a fairly big overhead from the OSStarwind DriverNTFSvirtual diskvmfsiSCSIEthernet conversion.

should be able to do faster with some tweaking and better networking – coming soon

By: Vladan

Vladan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:58:53 +0000

Great read Simon,

I think that we will certainly assist this year in some kind of hybrid storage move first. The prices will start falling on SSD’s, but they’ll not match the prices of Classical HD immediately.

That’s what’s already started happening. The consumer users already buying SSD’s for boot/system disk and keeps a SATA drive for storage.

Vladan

By: hypervizor

hypervizor — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:16:04 +0000

500Mb/s is not so fast for RAM chip don’t you think ?