I did pick this up somewhere.... From what I understand on native INTEL E2K7 systems that utilise >8GB of RAM the servers suffer performance issues and the AMD chipset is the prefered choice for a lot of early adopters due to this issue - at VMWorld I could not get an answer on whether VMWare machines would suffer the same issue.
The AMD techie stated that E2K7 was compiled on AMD too. A little of the original post I know but I found it interesting. Regards, Mark Parris Base IT Ltd Active Directory Consultancy Tel +44(0)7801 690596 -----Original Message----- From: "Wells, James Arthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:41:44 To:<ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2007 and W2K3 R2 DC's on ESX - Optimal lab system We're struggling with the same questions right now - one difference is the large amount of L2 cache on the Dual-core option for the 2900. At any rate...there was an internal benchmark regarding dual vs. quad cores with ESX 3 recently made available by Dell, but I'm not sure on its availability - ask your Dell TAM. As far as price goes -- today, there's a big price difference between a single quad or two dual core CPUs, for the ESX licensing. But there's a strong rumor that EMC/VMWare will begin charging their licensing per CORE in Q1 2007. So that puts you back to square one on your decision, if true. But if buying today, the quad will be cheaper on ESX licensing by 50%... --James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:55 AM To: activedir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2007 and W2K3 R2 DC's on ESX - Optimal lab system I posted this on the VMWARE forum as well but I am very interested in the opinion of the people who post to this list and there must be some people with hands on experience with ESX and DC's and Exchange 2007 running on VM's on top of ESX 3.0.1. I am interested in the following: We will be buying a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with either 1 Quad Core processor at 2,33 GHz or 2 Dual Core processors at 2,33 GHz. We will be using this machine in a test lab only and will be testing mainly Exchange 2007 and simulating AD issues. We would like to deploy ESX 3.0.1 (or the newest versionwith several Exchange 2007 VM's and several W2K3 R2 Domain Controller VM's on it. We are doubting between the following configurations, both DELL 2900's. We will unfortunately only be buying one system so we definately need to make the right choice. As I said we want to buy a system with either 2 Dual Cores or 1 Quad Core, see here under: - 1 Quad Core 2.33 GHz Processor, Xeon 5345 - 2 Dual Core 2.33 GHz Processors, Xeon 5140 Both systems will have 8 GB of 667 MHz RAM to start with. We have contacted Dell and we were told that the 5345 Xeon will be available in January at the latest. We dont really care about the price at this moment. The first thing that comes to mind when making a choice, to me is the fact that if one Quad would not be enough, we could always plug in another one :-) at a later time. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/
