I will be the first to admit that I haven't always been a fan of using the biggest baddest system you can find for ESX servers, but some things have changed and I do realize there are cases where really big systems make sense. Which brings me around to the newest system that we ordered for the lab - an R900 with four quad-core top bin processors and 128GB of RAM. This arrived in the lab on Thursday morning and I had ESX on it late that afternoon.

When I saw the system in Virtual Center, it really hit home just how much power you can get in a single system these days. This screen shot is something that only a geek would love (16 CPUs and 128GB of RAM!).



I'm thinking of doing some Exchange 2007 testing.... If I can just find enough disks.

Todd