Server Advice

[fluff-is-back]

I recently purchased a HP Proliant DL385 and have spent the last few months upgrading it. However I am unable to upgrade the number of processor cores as the most cores that a Socket 940 Opteron has is two. So I am stuck with a dual dual core configuration, along with 16GB of RAM, will this be enough to serve as a virtualisation node?

[Jack!]

It should be okay, all I can say is try it.

ALSO GET ON MSN :D

[Recursion]

How many VMs are you looking to run and how intensive are they? At work I'm running the following on our Hyper-V server:

Quad Core @ 2.3GHz
16GB DDR3 RAM
x2 Intel Gigabit NICs
x2 Broadcom Gigabit NICs

Server 2k8R2 - 5GB RAM (backup DC, DNS, WSUS, Cert Services)
Server 2k8R2 - 6GB RAM (ForeFront TMG)
Ubuntu 11.04 Server - 2GB RAM (Proxy/caching, Nagios, log rotation)

Which leaves us with 3GB for the host OS (2k8R2). Obviously our above VM setup is going to be more resource intensive than a lot of Linux VMs would be.

[fluff-is-back]

I was thinking of using ProXmoX as the base OS then have a windows VM for running a few game servers and then a couple with CentOS for running my web apps.