Ok so 4 socket servers 4 core chips..

So my Sun Galaxy boxes are out of luck... with Barcelona.

And I bet when Intel reintroduce hyperthreading on these boxes: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/02/intel_bloomfield_to_debut_lga1366/

we'll need 32 core support..

IBM's X series and UNisys ES7000's are out of luck...

Oh well if it actually ships when they say it will - we'll see how it works of course the competition aren't standing still either...

Simon.

And you get what you pay for. The Microsoft stuff is cheap, proper virtualisation costs more, a lot more. It's a question of what you can away with, and what you can try to predict you'll need in the future.

I can't get away with Microsoft's virtualisation software, I need VMware - but I can see how the low price point would be attractive to those that don't need more than half of what VMware offers.

On IBM gear (even low end 505 machines) Dynamic partitioning operations are possible out of the box (as long as you have a Hardware Management Console). AIX 5 partitions can have dynamic allocation/deallocation/movement of processors, memory and PCI slots.

Just wait until July when Power6 arrives. You will have the ability to migrate running Logical Partitions between servers.

funny, this mickeysoft hurray heep.

partitions, virtual servers, have been there for 10's of years.

mainframe VM, HP vpars, Sun domains, powerpc lpar's, zones, wPAR's even the age-old unix chroot is old school.

I bet they (sun,ibm,hp et all) would not even know how to *limit* support to 16 cores.....

by the time mickysoft gets it out of the door, xen will go 64, probably.

Oh well, as the saying goes; why would free people need to wait behind windows and gates ?