Hey Matt, thanks for the reply. Actually your response was pretty helpful. So by going to SAS storage I can pretty much more than double its throughput? Would that be a fair statement, everything else being equal? When I mentioned the LAMP not being hit too hard, I am talking about no more than 10 users concurrently running queries, which would include sample data. So it wouldn't be hundreds or thousands of users, hitting applications with millions of records. Literally, it would be pretty minimal usage. The server would probably have no more than 50 users max, with some of those users being clients entering bugs into our system, testing a new application, etc. The rest of the users would be developers committing code to our SVN repository. The only other thing that would be running would be our Continuous Integration process, which would be in its own VM. So in conclusion, I don't think any one VM will be too CPU or HD intensive, but we will run 10 VM's total that will mostly not be hit too hard. Our load is also spread out too, so maybe 10-15 concurrent users would be normal, with occasional spikes.
This is the reason we went with the dual 8 core Opterons.
Does this give you a better picture Matt?
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