Hi there Glenn.

I really enjoyed your post. Very concise and straighforward. Neverthless i think 64GB of RAM is bit overkill to a database that's only 16GB althgouh, like i said previously, eaggerly and constantly pounded.

The system itself may have the 64GB (8x8GB, it's cheaper and leaves slots open), but nowhere near that will be provided to the SQL Server... maybe something between 16-20GB. But hey, you're the expert. I just dont see any benefit from it, specially because i have other v-Machines to run on the host too, that could use the extra RAM.

I looked into the DL380p Gen8 and it seems at a decent price (2P, 16GB RAM baseline, and a P420i w/1GB FBWC). I will now look for the Dell's and Fujitsu's counter-part.

Thanks alot for your input. 😉