Hi,
I am in the process of running capacity planner and while i have not hit the required 30 day mark I have seen numbers roughly 3/4 of the way through. The report suggests 14-15 8 core 16GB RAM servers for 68 VMs. I understand that varying sizes of servers can be run through capactity planner to estimate the consolidation ratio But am curious about a few things:
How should one pick between # of sockets? Quad socket chassis cost more, but are they worth it?
How should one pick between the # of cores? This one is tricky for me - it's easy enough to get dual six core processors with spending much more than the top notch quad-core units.
How about RAM? Anyone start low then tack on? 16GB seems really low and upping to 32GB is not cost prohibitive at all.... but how about pushing it to 72GB?
Thanks,
Jay