speaking of type 1 hypervisors -- VMWare ESXi 4 seems to be free as well http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/ though I don't have much experience with either (we have a pretty large clustered implementation on ESXi 3.5 but that's a totally different story). On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Roach <troach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Has anyone tried Oracle VM? Or would they recommend he stick with > VMWARE? I know VMWARE Server is a free product as well as Oracle VM. > > As for a decent server, we use HP's. We have DL 585's and DL385's. In > fact the DL385 goes up to 144GB (DDR-3) of Ram and you can have a 2 > hexacore processors. Something like that should be around 20k but you > might even be able to do better if you go to newegg and buy the stuff > and build your own server. > -- Alex Fatkulin, http://afatkulin.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexfatkulin -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l