What I’m trying to put together is an emergency network to use temporarily in the event of a catastrophic disaster (for example, the office burning down).
The network currently consists of 16 windows 10 (i5’s, 8 gb of ram, 120 GB SSD).
These attach to a Windows 2012 r2 server. The server runs a SQL based software package that everyone attaches to, and also is where all their word processing documents reside.
What I’ve done is made a VM of the server running on a Xeon processor. It runs quite well and is nearly as fast as the regular server.
I took an i7 and created 2 Windows 10 VMs on it.
I then hooked up an OpenVPN server. This allows me to get to the VMs remotely from different offsite computers.
The emergency scenario then would be; the building is completely destroyed via flood, fire, etc.
So, the users who all have home computers could open up the VPN tunnel, login to separate Windows 10 VMs, and be able to work until a new building is secured.
My primary question is what would be the best computer specs to run the Windows 10 VMs. Would a Xeon be capable of running all 16 workstations at once?
64 GB minus 4 for the base operating system would give me (16) 3.75 GB per VM (roughly). Or would it be better to get 3 i7s, put 5 VMs on each (1 with 6) and get a little more ram for each VM.
Also what would be the best host for multiple windows 10 VMs?
Any input would be much appreciated