So, on my last startup, my Dell precision M4600 crashed. Wasn't a hard drive issue but a MOBO issue where I could get about 2 to 8 hours of use before it would just randomly blue screen. I was due for an upgrade anyway, so I just bought:
Dell Precision 7510 w/ 64GB Ram, TWO 512 GB NVME SSDs
I use VMWare Workstation 12
Laptop came with Win 10 so making that transition as well
I have a MyCloud 2TB Mirror NAS for backups while home, plus an old Buffalo Terastation NAS for personal stuff.
Before on my old Dell, I ran most of my Rockwell/Intouch stuff on the main win 7 host and all the older stuff on XP VMs. This time, I plan to do it right, which I'm thinking is keep the Main Win 10 host as clean as possible and put all development on Win 7 and XP VMs. I was able to copy the older XP VMs over and I've built a Win 7 VM and starting to install RS onto it.
Is this the right approach? I've read where some guys keep all their VMs backed up on a removable HDD they carry with them....I think I'll do that too. Plus I suppose I should keep the VM Install software and license on this HDD with them. That way at least on a catastrophic SDD issue, I can get my software back running to complete the job.
Another question, how should I manage the two SSD's? I could mirror them RAID 1, or keep the Win 10 OS on one, and all data on the other. I have Acronis, and I thought about doing an image backup of one to the other, but that seems a waste of a HD...maybe do that to an external also> My bag already weighs 40 lbs....carrying around external HDD's is going to be a pain!
Anyway, tips and tricks on quick recovery in the field would be appreciated.
Dell Precision 7510 w/ 64GB Ram, TWO 512 GB NVME SSDs
I use VMWare Workstation 12
Laptop came with Win 10 so making that transition as well
I have a MyCloud 2TB Mirror NAS for backups while home, plus an old Buffalo Terastation NAS for personal stuff.
Before on my old Dell, I ran most of my Rockwell/Intouch stuff on the main win 7 host and all the older stuff on XP VMs. This time, I plan to do it right, which I'm thinking is keep the Main Win 10 host as clean as possible and put all development on Win 7 and XP VMs. I was able to copy the older XP VMs over and I've built a Win 7 VM and starting to install RS onto it.
Is this the right approach? I've read where some guys keep all their VMs backed up on a removable HDD they carry with them....I think I'll do that too. Plus I suppose I should keep the VM Install software and license on this HDD with them. That way at least on a catastrophic SDD issue, I can get my software back running to complete the job.
Another question, how should I manage the two SSD's? I could mirror them RAID 1, or keep the Win 10 OS on one, and all data on the other. I have Acronis, and I thought about doing an image backup of one to the other, but that seems a waste of a HD...maybe do that to an external also> My bag already weighs 40 lbs....carrying around external HDD's is going to be a pain!
Anyway, tips and tricks on quick recovery in the field would be appreciated.