I want to build a machine for home/lab usage as a hypervisor machine that will host various virtual machines, around 6-8 of them, mostly VMs with different OSes and services.
Most likely there won't be any need for any of them to run continuously and I will boot them up when they are needed for various projects or testing, but then there would be need for several of them to run in parallel.
The hypervisor software will most likely be XenServer along with XenCenter in one of my workstations for its management.
What things I should be aware of? I think the most crusial element here would be the amount of RAM, so I'm thinking of getting a motherboard that allows up to 16GB DDR3 and fill them entirely. For CPU I'm thinking of a quad-core technology chip, just in case.
Can you give me any other tips regarding to the hardware? What you would take into account for something like this?
Thanks in advance, I appreciate your time.
