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I'm looking to buy a 1U or 2U server to run VMware on. My initial goals are to migrate a recently retired NT4 finance server into a guest OS, and to install a Scalix groupware server in another. I also want to be able to build several additional production servers within it, as well as use it for test servers whenever I need one. I guess the biggest questions initially concern CPUs and hard drives. VMware's web site suggests that 4 guest servers per CPU should work reasonably without serious performance issues; how accurate is that claim? Can I count on a decent number of guest systems with two dual-core Xeon CPUs, or do I really need four? If I use SATA hard drives instead of SCSI, how will that affect performance? Clearly I'll want gigabit ethernet, not just 100baseT. -- John Abreau IT Manager Zuken USA 238 Littleton Rd., Suite 100 Westford, MA 01886 T: 978-392-1777 F: 978-692-4725 M: 978-764-8934 E: John.Abreau at zuken.com W: www.zuken.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20061003/ec670718/attachment.sig>
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