May 30, 2010 #1 H hellosky Weaksauce Joined Mar 28, 2010 Messages 111 I'm looking into buying a PowerEdge T410 for a ESX 4.0 server which will run about 10VMs (most will be app servers so i expect little activity). 1. Single or Dual E5620s? 2. How loud is the server, would you put it right next to you?
I'm looking into buying a PowerEdge T410 for a ESX 4.0 server which will run about 10VMs (most will be app servers so i expect little activity). 1. Single or Dual E5620s? 2. How loud is the server, would you put it right next to you?
May 31, 2010 #2 T tjwenger Weaksauce Joined Sep 20, 2009 Messages 123 Our T310's are pretty loud. I would stash it in a closet/Datacenter One E5620 Should be more than enough, You can add a second later if you go nuts with more VM's Make sure you get @ least 8+GB mem though.
Our T310's are pretty loud. I would stash it in a closet/Datacenter One E5620 Should be more than enough, You can add a second later if you go nuts with more VM's Make sure you get @ least 8+GB mem though.
Jun 1, 2010 #3 DeChache Supreme [H]ardness Joined Oct 30, 2005 Messages 7,087 With 10 VM's I would go for the second proc I would have to much CPU power than not enough. Also with all those VM's make sure you have lots of spindles to run on.
With 10 VM's I would go for the second proc I would have to much CPU power than not enough. Also with all those VM's make sure you have lots of spindles to run on.
![[H]ard|Forum](/styles/hardforum/xenforo/logo_dark.png){kind=logo}
