I've been using Fusion for years but I've never really know how cores are handled. If I'm not doing anything on the guest system that requires multi-cores then obviously one core assigned to guest OS is fine. So does a i5 system (two cores) have one core going to the server and one to the guest?
If I want to run two guest OS running databases and simple processes am I good to still use a 2 core server or should I be getting and i7 so everyone can have their own core from the quad core server?
I've been running Fusion for about a year in a product environment with Server 2008 running vendor specific software against the wishes of the vendor. Never had to reboot the guest once in 4 months of operation...runs perfect so screw them! So now I want to run two guests and am wondering how the two core (i5) mac mini I have will do with this (16gb of RAM).