Sometimes, this industry confuses me.
For example, HP’s DL140, which is a perfectly nice 1u rack server, costs just over £600 (including VAT – we’re not VAT registered) here at Insight.
On that same page you can see the cost of adding in a second matching processor. Just under £600.
By their logic, the entire rest of the computer (including 2GB of RAM which they’ll sell you for £140) is only worth about £25.
It’s a pity, since an eight-core machine, even with a low clockspeed, is ideal for a VM host, especially with Xen where you can ‘pin’ VMs to specific cores. This can allow you to effectively dedicate a specific core to a single VM – useful if you have one or two VMs where the application is processor-heavy.
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