imageVincent over at Virtrix has just posted that the HP DL580 G5 has released. (Thanks for the heads up, Vincent.)  He calls it the ‘Virtualization Monster’, and he’s not wrong!!! Check out the specs of this thing:

  •  Up to 4 Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors with up to 8MB (4×2) shared L2 cache (16 cores in total)
  • Up to 128GB (with 4GB DIMMs, 32 slots!) of 667MHz DDR2 Fully-buffered DIMMs
  • Up to 2.336 TB of internal storage
  • Up to Eleven PCI-Express Slots

All in only 4U!

Run the on-line customize wizard for all the details.  Pricing starts at $7,000 USD, but fully optioned up with cpu, ram and storage you are looking at closer to $69,000 (~$450 USD a week leased)  …a bit more if you want the add and fill second drive cage, warranty and OS. 

…Hmmm 4 copies of Data Centre 2008.