Hi Tauf, There have already been a lot of good advice on this thread. I'll just add my 2 cents' worth....
After having lots of issues with previous laptops underperforming badly, I'm currently using an old Dell Precision M6400 with 16GB RAM, two 7200RPM internal HDD's in RAID-0 (for performance) and in spite of the Dual Core 2.66Ghz CPU, I am still getting very good performance under Win7 64-bit and VMWare Player (free) when running ITSM 7.6.4 in a VM with 8.5GB RAM allocated to the VM. BMC uses VMWare themselves, so chances are good that Remedy should be more stable under VMWare if not running directly on the host, even though the likes of VBox also performs well. Fisrt, ask yourself these questions before buying the laptop: A) For how many future versions of ITSM should this laptop be good enough? B) Do you like it when a laptop makes you wait most of the time? C) Are you going to use this laptop to do development or demo's? Decide on that and then plan on how much you want to spend. There are 3 things you should spend as much as possible $$$ on for a laptop running ITSM, in this order: 1) Fastest possible performing Disk Drive (go dual internal 7200+RPM HDD's in RAID config OR preferably add a decent SDD to the mix) 2) Stupidly excessive amounts of RAM (go with a machine that can take 16GB RAM or more and put at least 8GB in it from the start) 3) The best CPU you can afford. The rest of the config on the laptop depends on personal choice. Rest assured that it is almost impossible to spend too much on any of these 3 items if you want a laptop that performs well with ITSM Buy anything less, and you'll probably be shopping for a new laptop as soon as the next major version of ITSM comes out.... If you can't get a good HDD, then at least get 16GB RAM or more so you can use some of that RAM to create a RAMDrive and put your ARS DB on the RAMDrive when you need the extra performance. Running ITSM straight on the host OS gives best performance, but my experience has been that since using VM's for development, demo's etc., I have had only one Blue-Screen-Of-Death episode, and only reloaded the OS once (by choice), since buying this laptop in 2009. (Some of my other colleagues with different strategies are rebuilding their laptops at least once or twice a year after having lots of BSOD's). I believe that this is due to the fact that the host OS of my laptop has the minimum stuff loaded on it (less that can go wrong with it) and new installs of other software do not affect the host OS when loading them in a VM. Hope this helps... Best Regards, Theo -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dale Hurtt Sent: 16 July 2012 19:15 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Running ARS on laptop - options One of the US Army clients uses Dell Precision M6500 laptops running 64-bit Business Vista with 16 GB of RAM and the 1.6 GHz Intel i7 processor. (During installation it will complain about processor speed, but ignore it.) I run mine on the metal but others run it under VM. The latter is good if you have several configurations you want to try, but I usually do not have that requirement. Dale Hurtt _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
