solidworks VMs

[Haambiiiiiilll]

Hello.

I have an engineering company and i was wondering if i could buy a maxed out PC and have my 15 engineers run solidworks in VMs instead of buying one pc for each one of them. 

If the answer is yes how can i do it?

i was planning to buy 3990x titan RTX*2 256gig of quad channel memory at 3200MHz

and anything else that is needed.

[Sauron]

15? Gonna go with "no". You'd need 16 graphics cards in the same system.

 

Anyway this wouldn't be cost effective even if it were possible.

[Kisai]

13 minutes ago, Haambiiiiiilll said:

Hello.

I have an engineering company and i was wondering if i could buy a maxed out PC and have my 15 engineers run solidworks in VMs instead of buying one pc for each one of them. 

If the answer is yes how can i do it?

i was planning to buy 3990x titan RTX*2 256gig of quad channel memory at 3200MHz

and anything else that is needed.

Kinda, but also not really. The latency will probably make it completely unusable. You can only have one GPU per VM, they can't be shared. So that will only give you 2 users, and since those aren't Quadro's there may be additional complications with the software.

 

Like RDP, VNC and Citrix don't "render on the server, transfer to the client" in any meaningful way that having your engineers just have a bunch of Quadro 3000 parts or Geforce 1660's wouldn't be immediately better.

 

With that said, no, I wouldn't do this unless only one user is going to use it at a time. This won't save you money, won't save you time, and will likely violate the licencing, since these products are usually per-seat or per-machine, and VM's are individually "machines" within the actual machine. Unless you have a network licence that manages that, no, that's probably a bad idea.

 

So basically the answer is "technically yes, but it will be miserable and not recommended."

[Enderman]

Yeah no.

Maybe you haven't seen the videos linus did but he built a workstation for 6 editors, spent $100 000 and tons of hours troubleshooting issues and it still won't perform as well as separate computers.

[Prodigy_Smit]

38 minutes ago, Haambiiiiiilll said:

Hello.

I have an engineering company and i was wondering if i could buy a maxed out PC and have my 15 engineers run solidworks in VMs instead of buying one pc for each one of them. 

If the answer is yes how can i do it?

i was planning to buy 3990x titan RTX*2 256gig of quad channel memory at 3200MHz

and anything else that is needed.

NO, linus spent $100000 for 6 gamers, your talking about 15 engineers with actual work to do and would loose you money if they could not do said work. THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY THIS IS A GOOD IDEA. Just get separate machines.

[Applefreak]

26 minutes ago, Haambiiiiiilll said:

Hello.

I have an engineering company and i was wondering if i could buy a maxed out PC and have my 15 engineers run solidworks in VMs instead of buying one pc for each one of them. 

If the answer is yes how can i do it?

i was planning to buy 3990x titan RTX*2 256gig of quad channel memory at 3200MHz

and anything else that is needed.

Is that a space limitation or are you trying to run all of them on the same license?

 

If you are tight in terms of space, you could do something like blade servers but that's actually several servers sharing the same rack and not VM in any way. 

My biggest concern, apart from the GPU and networking split ist the fact that you need 16 Cores (not threads) and at least 32 GB of RAM per user (depending on the project, 128 GB might not be a bad idea).

[Pixel5]

beside what others have said already there is another reason why this is big NO for the entire idea and that is if all you have is a single PC with VM´s and this PC goes down nobody is able to work anymore.

If you got 15 PC´s and even 5 of them break down you still got 10 functional PC´s

[Haambiiiiiilll]

no no we don't have any problems with buying licenses i was just wondering if this was possible 

and with people's help i understood that its not

i'd have to buy separate PCs for my engineers.

[Haambiiiiiilll]

so any suggestions for the spec of the individual pcs? 

[FloRolf]

2 minutes ago, Haambiiiiiilll said:

no no we don't have any problems with buying licenses i was just wondering if this was possible 

and with people's help i understood that its not

i'd have to buy separate PCs for my engineers.

As an engineer myself, please get them two monitors as well. It really helps boost productivity. 

[Prodigy_Smit]

1 minute ago, Haambiiiiiilll said:

so any suggestions for the spec of the individual pcs? 

Can you give us the scale of your projects? also create a new thread in new builds and planning for this.

[Haambiiiiiilll]

1 minute ago, FloRolf said:

As an engineer myself, please get them two monitors as well. It really helps boost productivity. 

well depends on how much budget is left i myself cant work without 2 monitors

[Moonzy]

2 minutes ago, Haambiiiiiilll said:

so any suggestions for the spec of the individual pcs? 

would help to know the budget

or at least, the workload, what kind of projects? how big?

[Haambiiiiiilll]

5 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

would help to know the budget

or at least, the workload, what kind of projects? how big?

i created a topic in builds and planning 

[Sauron]

26 minutes ago, Haambiiiiiilll said:

i created a topic in builds and planning 

Are you sure you want to buy custom PCs for your office? Remember that if something goes wrong you'll have to troubleshoot it yourself whereas with an OEM you could just call assistance or have the whole thing replaced through warranty.