Microsoft has said that they are seeing good results with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. 12 cores – I’m not surprised!!!! Jeez, I’ve trouble making use of dual quad core CPU’s with the typical hosting virtual machine on our cluster. I can’t imagine us needing 8 or 12 core CPU’s without some mad (and I mean laughing cuckoo smacking itself in the head with a frying pan mad) amounts of RAM. But I guess that we are not the typical corporation. The chips are also providing some new power efficiencies that sound like core parking.
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Well,
Once you start doing virtualization of CPU intensive app servers you can use them. Not just talking about SQL or Exchange, we have done some virtualization of GPS/GIS software etc. that really eat CPU cycles If you only virtualize light CPU severs you run out of slots for memory before you expand CPU resources 🙂 As you stated/hinted at very correctly … it depends. That’s why I’m not a big fan of P2V conversion rated per host … it depends on what one virtualizes.
Take care,
Didier