On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 04:43:09 PM Rainer Duffner wrote:
Virtualization is an option, but the trouble is: if the server is I/O- constrained anyway, virtualization won't help. Everything will just be even slower.
That depends. More expensive servers that would be suitable for virtualization host use also tend to have better I/O subsystems and faster disks. Relative to a 'cheap' system with much poorer base I/O bandwidth.