I am being asked by a vendor to produce a quote for some servers. In their documentation, they list ‘SPEC CINT2006 Rate’ requirements for each of the server tiers. When I look up our Tier 1 and Tier 2 VMWare hosts, the Tier 1 hosts are rated at a CINT2006 Rate of about 800, and our Tier 2 hosts are rated at about 250.
From VMWare’s standpoint, would you consider a cluster of ten hosts with a rating of 800 each to be able to provide guests of a performance level 800, or would you consider that cluster to be able to support up to 8000 rating cumulative guests?
