Was thinking along that line as well. The system will probably be fast enough with one quad but we also have the option to add another quad later. I read somewhere however that dual cores are able to access more/make better use of system RAM. When I read those kind of things I get the feeling that Quad is not always better than Dual and that makes me wonder and it puzzles me.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: woensdag 22 november 2006 20:11 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2007 and W2K3 R2 DC's on ESX - Optimal lab system It's a test environment? Knowing that you won't be testing performance related issues in this configuration, I'd opt for the expandability. My $0.04 worth anyway. On 11/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 definitely 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/[email protected]/
