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Cyberfed27
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I had this problem, well sorta as well. I was considering going VM on our SQL DB servers.

We decided against it for a few reasons.

1. We currently have 4xQuad Core CPU's = 16 cores total and the server is actually using them all, yes the DB processes THAT much data! Plus the DB servers have 128GB RAM.

2. If you were to virtualize it and give it the max of 8 cores, unless you have a real powerhouse of physical hardware, you are going to assign most of the vmhost's physical resources to it anyways, leaving you little room to add other VM's on that host.

Then of course if you want to do vMotion or HA, your other vmHosts will also have to be able to meet the resource needs of this virtual DB server.

I guess it depends on how realistic it is for your DB server to actually use 8 cores + RAM.