When deciding what physical server to use for running all your virtual machines, there are lots of choices and decision points. These pages are designed to pool all the available information to help you decide what is best for your environment.

Web Chat Transcripts

05/20/08 - Selecting a Virtualization Server - TechTuesday WebChat
05/27/08 - Would you Like 2 or 4 Sockets for Virtualization - TechTuesday WebChat
06/03/08 - Blades and Virtualization - TechTuesday WebChat

TechCenter Resources

Server Decision Matrix Wiki

VMotion Compatibility for Dell Servers

An Update to 2-Socket and 4-Socket Servers for Virtualization

Advantages of Two Socket Servers over Four Socket Servers - Note - This paper is a bit dated, but provides some good background and frames some of the major issues

Virtualization Frontier Blog

Wiggle Room for Deciding on Virtualization Server

Oodles of NICs for ESX
Ultimate Power Efficiency with Blades and Virtualization?

VMotion Compatibility and Server Selection
Bumping Into It on VMTN

The Best Server for You

VMmark Results Point to Best Performance

Blades and Upstream Ports

Decisions Decisions Decisions
The R085 is Here!

Discussion Threads

Recommendations for Blade Server
VMware ESX Server on Blades

Community Resources

VMware Community

Physical Hardware Recommendation

VMware Infrastructure - Blade Servers or Single Servers? Best Option?

4 Socket vs 2 Socket with DRS
Counting CPUs
Hardware Recommendations (VM Server and Workstation)

Blogs

Is The Emperor Is Under dressed?

BladeWatch - Blades or RackMounts for VMWare?

VMware.com

VMmark Benchmark Results

Improving Economics of Blades Using VMware