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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Each game server, as far as I know will only use a
single core so virtual is what this bad boy was made for. <span
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This machine in our environment running Linux game servers, we would be able to
run 40-50 game servers on this single box! Currently we run 6-10 windows
servers on a single dual core xeon w/8gigs of ram. Remember Vmware allows over
commitment of memory!!! Most others do not.<o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Marco Padovan
[mailto:evolutioncrazy@gmail.com]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 06, 2009
12:36 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> cod@icculus.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [cod] Mmmm... cores</span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>sas raid, the
specs where posted above...<br>
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with that many processes running I wouldn't virtualize it!!!<br>
<br>
maximum performances ftw! :D<br>
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Rick Payton ha scritto: <o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>with that many cores I
would hope so. I would virtualize the hell out of that box. the free ESXi
3.5 server would do just fine for that, though the biggest pitfall would be
disk space - i'm assuming there's a san or 2 to compliment this monster?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> J T [<a
href="mailto:jtrask@gmail.com">mailto:jtrask@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 06, 2009
9:25 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <a
href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [cod] Mmmm... cores</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:.5in;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Are you going to virtualize it at all?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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