Yeah. I suspect you'll bottleneck on disk and memory before you do on CPU, so 1 quad will get you more than enough, as would I suspect 1 dual.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor W. Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 4:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2007 and W2K3 R2 DC's on ESX - Optimal lab system I am not sure if I interpreted you correctly. After reading your reply again I now think you would go with the single quad because even with one quad, cpu resources would not be an issue. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor W. Sent: donderdag 23 november 2006 0:00 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2007 and W2K3 R2 DC's on ESX - Optimal lab system You mean that it is in fact overkill. I have thought about this and I know that it probably is. 2 Dual Cores will be probably overkill as well. Both options probably being overkill, with one quad, we at least have the option to add another one later in case this may be necessary and one quad will be cheaper than 2 Duals. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: woensdag 22 november 2006 19:41 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2007 and W2K3 R2 DC's on ESX - Optimal lab system A pair of quad cores is a lot of horsepower for testing. I suspect you will run out of disk i/o perf and memory long before you encounter the need for a second quad core chip given the scenarios you've described. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:55 AM To: [email protected] 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/[email protected]/ 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]/ 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]/ 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]/ 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]/
