Feel the power

A new Dual Xeon Quad-core server arrived at our door last night fresh from Dell. It's a fairly loaded machine with 3 GHz processor speed, 16 GB of memory and 1.3 terabytes of disk spinning at 15,000 RPM.

This is actually a prototype machine for us to see how much virtualization we can squeeze out of it. The only thing we can do in the next round to increase performance is double the memory, but we're anxiously awaiting Dell to release the Dual AMD Quad-core which is supposed to put Intel to shame when it comes to running virtual environments.

This should be a fun (and noisy) day. The non-technical translation of the above is that this computer is very super-duper.