The economics of consolidation systems does not appear to favor 4P systems with the exception of some very special cases where access to multiple-threads and multi-gigabytes of memory are needed by the virtual machines. All other workloads seem to favor 2P systems in $/VM computations. Since 2P systems can be completely turned-off in DRS-driven DPM (VMware) the power saving promised in "better" 4P systems has dubious application.![]()
