Question for the gang here.
With the new iMac 27", is it possible to slave 2 Thunderbolt displays (one to the left, one to the right), and also connect a thunderbolt Pegasus or similar RAID array?
I do a lot of work with VMWare Fusion for various hospitals - usually multiple clients who've given me their approved, encrypted laptops whereby I summarily snarfed them into Fusion and handed them back their door-stop Dell's and other laptops.
So far, I've been using (mainly) a MacBook Pro where I put in 16GB of RAM, and replaced the HD with an SSD and the DVD with an SSD internally as well, and slaved off a thunderbolt 27" display.
The performance I get from running multiple Windows 7 development desktops concurrently where the boot drive is one SSD, and the VM's are another in this configuration is wicked-fast - even compared to a single desktop running a single instance of Windows in most cases.
But what I would like to do now is an iMac with 32GB RAM, 3TB Fusion drive and a Pegasus array holding the VM's. I've read that the Pegasus running my VM's would actually be faster than the internal SSD (which I find hard to comprehend - but okay) - I'm just not sure if I can not only slave 2 displays and a storage array - but do it without incurring a ton of speed loss over the thunderbolt channels.
Ideas? Is it possible? Heck, I wouldn't mind waiting for the Pro maybe, not sure if that would be even faster/better - but am curious about this.
Thanks!
Ryan
With the new iMac 27", is it possible to slave 2 Thunderbolt displays (one to the left, one to the right), and also connect a thunderbolt Pegasus or similar RAID array?
I do a lot of work with VMWare Fusion for various hospitals - usually multiple clients who've given me their approved, encrypted laptops whereby I summarily snarfed them into Fusion and handed them back their door-stop Dell's and other laptops.
So far, I've been using (mainly) a MacBook Pro where I put in 16GB of RAM, and replaced the HD with an SSD and the DVD with an SSD internally as well, and slaved off a thunderbolt 27" display.
The performance I get from running multiple Windows 7 development desktops concurrently where the boot drive is one SSD, and the VM's are another in this configuration is wicked-fast - even compared to a single desktop running a single instance of Windows in most cases.
But what I would like to do now is an iMac with 32GB RAM, 3TB Fusion drive and a Pegasus array holding the VM's. I've read that the Pegasus running my VM's would actually be faster than the internal SSD (which I find hard to comprehend - but okay) - I'm just not sure if I can not only slave 2 displays and a storage array - but do it without incurring a ton of speed loss over the thunderbolt channels.
Ideas? Is it possible? Heck, I wouldn't mind waiting for the Pro maybe, not sure if that would be even faster/better - but am curious about this.
Thanks!
Ryan