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Which processor gives better price/performance for virtualization environment?

aurimask
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I would recommend dual Nehalem Xeons (w/ 8MB L3 cache, list) as the optimum price/performance chips for VMWare ESXi virtualization right now - they're old enough to be cheap but still powerful enough to run lots of big VMs. Generally you won't run into performance problems with CPUs though, you'd be better off spending the cash you save on 32+ GBs of RAM.

(caveat: this is obviously subjective and dependant on application)

Andy
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This can't be answered as prices are relative based on who's buying.

It also depends on whether your hypervisor of choice can deal with hyperthreading well.

Chopper3
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