On 10/25/07, Tom Van Looy <tom@ctors.net> wrote:
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> I think you forgot to count power savings here?
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> Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > And when physical servers cost less than some vmware licenses........
> > Then it is even more dumb to defend such stupid practices.
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Some but not all. If you buy a Dell 2950 quad and load it up with 8 Gig. You
can spend $500 on an ESX 3i license and run  10 - 15 512 MB OpenBSD single
processor VMs.  The difference here is that you can max out the duty cycle
on the box where as a single OS running on the same Iron won't do that.  For
ESX it's designed for you to max out the hardware