> 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
I think you're off on price by almost an order of magnitude (ESX runs about $3k per CPU socket, iirc). I don't disagree with your point, though; virtualizing under-utilized hardware can save you money and electricity. --Matt
