A VMWare Esxi 5.1 server host 10 o/s of Windows 7 Pro

Hello

I am preparing to configure 10 Windows 7 VM on a signle 5.1 ESXi Server (all will be awarded in 4 GB of ram and each must install a Bently reporting software

I just want to see if the server spec is sufficient or not

1U Dell Server

Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.40 GHz, Cache of 15 M E5-2440, 7.2GT / s QPI, Turbo, 6 c, 95W, Max Mem 1333 MHz

32 GB / 64 GB RAM

4 x 1 TB SATA hard drive (RAID 5)

2 x 1 GB LAN

10 virtual computers Winodws 7 Pro 32 x running the Reporting Bently software (running on some Windows 7 / Windows XP, 2 GB of ram workstations)

Please notify that the specification captioned is sufficeint?

Thank you

"... Indeed, the VM ESXi 5.1 is the FREE... »

Don't forget that free esxi (hypervisor) is limited to 32 GB of RAM. No need to buy 64 GB. And IIRC, for xeon processors, you must have DIMMS ecc.

If 32GB is not enough for all virtual machines and you can't (won't) buy a license is essential, you can buy fast SSD and use it to VM-swap.

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