Hello Chris,
 
Thank you for your advice. I will be setting up an external MySQL db. After 
conversing with my sysadmin, I'm going to run it on 64-bit Ubuntu with 2cpus 
and 4GB RAM, which, based on what you posted, sounds like it will be more than 
enough for my testing needs.
 
Thanks again,
Josh


>>> Chris Wilper <[email protected]> 2/18/2011 11:41 AM >>>
Hi Joshua,

For testing purposes, Fedora can run on fairly minimal hardware/VMs.
I don't have an absolute minimum for you, but I can say that we
routinely run system tests on small EC2 VMs (1.7GB memory, with the
equivalent of a single 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon
processor) running 32-bit Ubuntu.

If you're planning for a test host where performance isn't a big
concern, I think something similar should be fine.  If you're planning
to run an external database (like postgresql or mysql, as opposed to
the bundled derby database), a little extra memory would be good.

- Chris

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Joshua Gomez <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am new to Fedora and am planning on setting up a test environment for
> Fedora.  I asked my sysadmin to set up a new virtual server for me. He then
> asked me how many CPUs I needed, how much RAM and how much storage.  Any
> thoughts from this list on a decent set up for a test environment?
>
> My main objective is to run a couple pilot projects for research data set
> curation.  I am hoping to work on fairly small data sets so I am thinking
> 100GB of storage should be more than enough for now. However, I don't know
> what the minimum levels of processing power and memory are to run Fedora
> smoothly.
>
> Thanks in advance for your input,
> Josh
>
>
>
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