HP Blades, AMD or Intel for virtualisation hosts?

[Lanz]

Last year we bought some X5550 based BL460c G6's, and I liked them a lot. This year, the powers that be have decided to buy AMD G7's - There's conflicting reports which are best, last time I looked Nehalem held the virtualisation crown, but what about now with these 2 socket, 8 core opteron things?

Hmm, I Dunno, I've always used intel on the server side, these will be the first AMD servers we have bought.... We are currently using Hyper-V.

Thoughts?

 

[Lanz]

I imagine the reason we have moved is because we have bought 30 new ones, and I bet cost of simular intel based blades would have only got us about 20.

 

[Lanz]

Have they been purchased yet? Ignoring the argument as to which is best - there is the issue that you won't be able to vMotion between Intel and AMD hosts. You could try using that to stick with Intel and get some X5600s.

Not using VMware, we are Hyper-V right now, so does this effect live migration or standard cloning/moving around?