Thread: Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory

From el Reg

The rumor mill suggests that Dell will launch this new box as the ESX Appliance in a 2U, two-socket form. The box has been said to have support for up to 256GB of memory, 4 integrated NICs, 4 expansion card slots and two hard drives. And we hear the system will run on AMD's four-core Barcelona chips.

Suspected to be VMWare or XenSource. Either way these sound bloody marvelous.

Wouldn't like to see the power consumption on that, eek!

That's still a pretty fat power consumption...
Whatever cab that goes in will have alot of empty space.

No doubt it saves space and power and kicks @$$ but as Joel said, it'll be a very empty rack that it sits in.

Manchester (IFL) supplies 5 and 7amps by default, 10 or 12 seems to be considered as power hungry!

Only a few weeks ago Ray (Teledata) asked if there was demand for a 64amp rack and everyone concluded that 32amps was a much better option. I wouldn't like to consider running 28 or 30 amps on a 32amp breaker.

256GB of ram and only 8 Cores? Nah

No doubt it will cost extreme ammounts of money. First its Dell and secondly its targeted at virtualisation customers which have like LOADS of money. (apparantly)