Last week I bought myself an MSDN subscription. There are some things happening that may require that I need to know Windows 2008 & Exchange 2007 soon, so I thought I had better prepare and actually use the product I might be supporting. Anyway, I’ve now got an MSDN subscription and I can definitely say its well worth the money (for an IT guy like me anyway). I have access to so much software its like being a kid in candy store. Now I don’t have a huge amount of money to throw around, so I have installed VMware on my machine and started to build a virtual domain for me to so some messing around on. You may recall that back in February I had to buy some parts for my computer as I had a little “accident” that meant everything went tits up and I ended up buying in my haste four 1GB sticks of RAM. “Fantastic!” I Hear you cry, however it wasn’t what I was planning to do. I was planning for my next upgrade before the “disaster” to move to 8GB of RAM as motherboards these days can handle it and x64 OS’ can use it. But I didn’t. Anyway, I bought the 4GB and was happy up until I started making a domain…
I had 3 servers (2008) and a desktop (Vista) running on VMWare and my machine was getting slower and slower. Not long after I had powered on the last machine (the Vista desktop) I got a warning about memory… my machine was running low on 4GB!
Being the kind of rational individual I am, I hopped onto ebuyer and grabbed what I should have done in the first place – 2 sets of 4GB dual channel kits. So today I have installed the RAM, and everything is running sweet as a nut. All 5 (additional 2008 server installed today) VM’s are running and I’ve not hit the memory ceiling yet… although I am close at about 6GB.
At least I’m able to sell on the “old” stuff onto one of my colleagues for about 75% of what I paid for it…