Quad Xeon 7500, the Best Virtualized Datacenter Building Block?

Why should you read this article knowing that your budget does not allow for Intel’s expensive RISC killer? We’ll give you three reasons:

1. Buying high-end servers might be a smart choice, even if you don’t normally consider them.
2. You simply want to know how fast a 32-core, 64-thread machine can be. Did I mention that there is more than 72GHz of computing power in there?
3. You want to know whether or not Intel did a good job with the 7500 series. Reviews across the web left a relatively blurred picture. We add a new solid virtualization benchmark so you can make up your mind.

The last two reasons are pretty straight forward. But the first reason needs more elaboration.