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Hi Chris,
Thanks again, I guess we have the choice of using the 60 day trial for the T5220
or consider a number of Sun Intel servers. Can we not run Solaris 10 on Intel servers as opposed to Linux (our own experience has shown Solaris 10 to be faster and more stable/secure than Linux)?

We normally use Sun hardware, so would therefore be looking at something like the SunFire X4600 (4 AMD Opteron Model 8218 Processors OR
8 * AMD Opteron Model 8220 processors).

Without server virtualisation, we would need something like :-
Server-1 DEV/TEST/TRG DB/Reports (Opteron 4 * dual-core ,16Gb)
Server-2 DEV/TEST/TRG Apps/Web (Opteron 4 * dual-core, 16Gb)

Server-3 PROD DB (Opteron 4 or 8 * dual-core ,16Gb)
Server-4 PROD Reports (Opteron 4 or 8 * dual-core ,16Gb)
Server-5 PROD Apps (Opteron 4 or 8 * dual-core ,16Gb)
Server-6 PROD Web (Opteron 4 or 8 * dual-core ,16Gb)

Do you think this is a better proposition ?

Thanks again for your help...