You’ve reminded me of the little ‘power plant’ at work that I built. hehe
An ESX Cluster with 396gb of RAM and 24 Xeon Processors. Was able to shrink a good part of our data center down into a couple of cabinets. (one for the cluster and the other for the EMC SAN)
It’s fun when they actually let you spend real money once every decade or so....
We did that in my last job. It's amazing how many servers you can provision on an ESX box like that, especially when you're virtualizing a bunch of worthless windows boxes that were mostly just consuming power.