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Suggestion needed: Decent laptop for 12c Sample App image.

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Manoj Dixit
Manoj Dixit Rank 6 - Analytics Lead
edited Aug 13, 2024 6:06PM in Oracle Analytics Cloud and Server

Hi,

Could you please suggest me a decent laptop to deploy OBI EE 12C sample app image? If not a particular model, pointers to configuration will also be fine, such as minimum RAM and Hard Disk size, benefits of having SSD?

Thank you.

Regards,

Manoj.

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  • Gianni Ceresa
    Gianni Ceresa Mod

    Minimum 16Gb of RAM if you don't want to die ...

    Disk space I guess the image needs a bit more of 60Gb (more when extracting as there is the OVA etc.)

    Of course, being a server app, the more the better (for RAM, CPU etc.)

  • Manoj Dixit
    Manoj Dixit Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    Thank you Gianni.

    Any thought about SSD? Deployment guide recommends it. The cost goes up, so just checking whether or not having it does really make a difference.

    Regards,

    Manoj.

    Edit/PS: My current 8gb machine takes half an hour to start the services which I want to reduce.

  • Thomas Dodds
    Thomas Dodds Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    I've never yet run the VMs on a SSD ... mine run from a USB 2.0 3TB plugin drive --- and I can fire up 2-3 different instances of the VMs at a time ... your key will be RAM & CPU -- my smallest laptop to run VMs for demos is 32GB -- this machine is 5+ yrs old; works like a champ.

  • Gianni Ceresa
    Gianni Ceresa Mod

    Of course if you can have a SSD is nicer, but VMs doesn't require a SSD, your issues will more be RAM/CPU than the disk (as long as you are not using a USB2 drive).

    So not mandatory, as Thomas said he is perfectly living without for his VMs

  • Thomas Dodds
    Thomas Dodds Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    @Gianni Ceresa ... I'll have to check ... my VM USB drive might be 3.0, but I've had it 'so long' I'm thinking it's 2.0 -- might not be!  (I no longer carry it having left the traveling sales engineer / dev manager gig! )

    I don't recall ever having a performance issue -- not even with my OBIA (EBS sourced) demo VM.

  • Gianni Ceresa
    Gianni Ceresa Mod

    Well, till some years ago USB2 wasn't a problem, nowadays you can feel it a bit more and USB3 helps on that. But most of us still hit RAM limits, so the disk doesn't matter a lot (as soon as you swap you are lost, even on SSD )

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    Good thing is that ssd and 16gb is pretty much standard now.

  • Gianni Ceresa
    Gianni Ceresa Mod

    For pro/dev laptop yes (forget for consumer laptops, they still stop mainly at 8Gb).

    This remind me I was lurking just yesterday at the Lenovo P50 with a Xeon CPU, 64Gb RAM and 2Tb raid0 SSD (never enough!)

  • Thomas Dodds
    Thomas Dodds Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    Sweet talk them into a free one for @Christian Berg and I when you purchase yours ...

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    Uuuhh yes please!!