great big gobs of RAM and piles of cores to boot

[Alan Johnson]

I'm spec-ing some blades for virtualization of our production systems and I
just want to check with the masses (that's you all) about any known issues
with Linux, Xen, or Ubuntu Hardy Server when it comes to up to 24 cores and
as much as 256GB of RAM on the host.  These are HP C-class blades, BL685s
and BL465s to be exact.

I have no reason to think I will have any issues, but I'm just paranoid
about spending this much of my employer's money.   I've have plenty of
experience with these technologies on various lesser boxes and have no
issues, but without having actually installed this stuff myself on machines
of quite this scale... =)

Sorry to waste all your time with my wussiness.  I appreciate any advise and
will happily accept any abuse off-list. ;-p

[For you Caddy Shack fans out there, I rearranged the words in the subject
to match the rhythm of "great big gobs of greasy grimy golfer guts".]

-- 
Alan Johnson
alan at datdec.com
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